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  • NOSAS visit to Tiree in 2017

    Blog writer by John Wombell, including intertidal trackways on a Ruaig beach; nousts and kelp sites on Fadamul, Salum; drilled holes at the harbour, Milton; huts on Kenavara; rock art and the Ringing Stone.

    NOSAS, the North of Scotland Archaeological Society, has made several visits to Tiree, in particular, surveying all the rock art.

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  • Salum collection site

    ‘Glasgow Museums holds archaeological material which was found by chance by a member of the public in the late 1970’s. The material was found eroding out of sand dunes towards the east end of Salum Bay on the island of Tiree in Argyll.
    In the early 2000’s, EASE Archaeology, and researchers from the University of Reading, have undertaken surveys and recording work in that area which has confirmed that there is a complex set of archaeological features and deposits present, at various depths. Recording of the eroded section on the seaward side of the dunes, and of the artefacts and non-artefactual objects which had eroded out of it, confirmed that the site is Iron Age in date.
    The archaeological material held by Glasgow Museums comprises mainly potsherds, but also animal bones (some of which are worked), a bird bone, daub fragments, a stone disc, a possible smoother, a polisher, an iron fragment, and a spindle whorl. These are probably all Iron Age in date and are consistent with the types and range of objects which would normally be found in a settlement site of that period. In addition to these are further potsherds which probably came from Food Vessels of the Early Bronze Age period, attesting to earlier use of the same area for burial.
    For more information and associated archives, please refer to Canmore, the online catalogue of Scotland’s archaeology, buildings, industrial and maritime heritage.’

    Collection dates 1978 and 1979
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  • Balevullin collection site

    ‘This record comprises a general overview of the prehistoric archaeological material, held in Glasgow Museums’ collections, from Balevullin, in north-west Tiree, Argyll. The objects are all from the Ludovic McLellan Mann Collection, bequeathed to Glasgow Museums in 1955, and were collected/excavated from the sand dunes at Balevullin in 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, and 1912. Apart from those items collected/excavated by Mann himself, some were excavated by Mungo Buchanan, and others were excavated/collected by Arthur Henderson Bishop. Collections of archaeological material from Balevullin are also held by the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow (Bishop Collection), An Iodhlann (Tiree’s Historical Centre), and National Museums Scotland.
    The material held by Glasgow Museums generally comprises: over 260 items categorised as ‘worked stone’ or ‘possibly worked stone’, 40 scrapers, 28 pounders, 26 potsherds, 9 pounder/anvil stones, 3 stone discs, 3 cores, 1 stone anvil, 2 stones with use-wear, 2 stone arrowheads, 2 possible Food Vessel potsherds, 1 pounder/pivot stone, 1 reconstructed cordoned urn, 8 worked bone items (4 points, 2 awls, and 2 other worked bone objects), 1 antler object, 1 flint bladelet, 1 animal tusk, and 1 shell fragment. In addition, there are 45 bone fragments, which may relate to the cordoned urn. These objects derive from Mann and Bishop’s excavations in 1910 of a ‘hut’ site, from the Bishop/Buchanan/Mann excavations of a further ‘hut’ site in 1912, and from surface collection from the sand dunes in the general vicinity of these settlement sites. Collectively, this material dates from (at least) the Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. For further information about these sites and finds, see Mann, L M. (1908) ‘Notices (1) of a pottery churn from the island of Coll, with remarks on Hebridean pottery; and (2) of a workshop for flint implements in Wigtownshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 42, 1907-8. Page(s): 328; Mann, L M. (1906) ‘Notes on – (1) a drinking-cup urn found at Bathgate; (2) the exploration of the floor of a a prehistoric hut in Tiree; and (3) a group of (at least) sixteen cinerary urns found, with objects of vitreous paste and of gold, in a cairn at Stevenston, Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 40, 1905-6. Page(s): 372-8; and MacKie, E W. (1965c) ‘A dwelling site of the Earlier Iron Age at Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in 1912 by A. Henderson Bishop’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 96, 1962-3. Page(s): 155-83.
    In addition, of especial interest and importance are the group of human remains from the exceptionally rare Middle Neolithic flat inhumation cemetery at Balevullin. One of this group of at least four burials was initially discovered by Mann and his sister, Mrs Farquhar, and the burials were subsequently excavated in 1912 by Buchanan, Bishop, and Mann. The human remains from one of these burials are preserved in the collections of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, and at least two other sets of human remains (and possibly more) from this site are held in the collections of Glasgow Museums. Unfortunately, the researchers who recently studied the human remains held by the Hunterian Museum were not aware of the presence of further human remains from the site within Glasgow Museums’ collections, and as a result the human remains held by the latter have not as yet been fully analysed or published. See Armit, I et al (2015) ‘Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland’, Proc Preh Soc, vol. 81, 2015. Page(s): 199-214 for further information about the inhumation cemetery, and the study of the human remains held by the Hunterian Museum (published as ‘Balevullin 1’).

    Collection dates 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910 and 1912
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  • Glasgow Museums Collection

    Online search collection using ‘Tiree’ or ‘Coll’ and ‘Archaeology’: Tiree > 206 results and Coll > 120 results
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  • Rock art database: ScRAP

    https://www.rockart.scot > Search Database
    Either Map or Simple Search > Argyll and Bute > Tiree
    There are 17 definite, and 6 possible, panels of simple cupmarks on Tiree
    No rock art has been found to date on Coll or Gunna
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  • Discovery and Excavation in Scotland

    Discovery and Excavation in Scotland published from 1947. Searchable on:
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  • WOSAS database

    West of Scotland Archaeology Service
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  • Canmore database

    Canmore contains more than 320,000 records and 1.3 million catalogue entries for archaeological sites, buildings, industry and maritime heritage across Scotland. Compiled and managed by Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore contains information and collections from all its survey and recording work, as well as from a wide range of other organisations, communities and individuals who are helping to enhance this national resource.’

    Search in November 2023
    “Tiree”: 2332 images, 1168 sites
    “Coll”: 66 images, 79 sites
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  • Coastal Zone Assessment Survey on the Islands of Coll and Tiree: SCAPE

    ‘This report documents the findings of a coastal zone assessment survey carried out on the islands of Coll and Tiree in 2001. The aims of this work were to gather specific data on the nature and present condition of the coastal archaeological resource and to assess the nature and degree of future risk. Similar programmes have been carried out along other coastlines in Scotland and the combined results are currently being assessed in order to determine future management strategies.’ Hazel Moore and Graeme Wilson, EASE Archaeology 2002

    Coastal zone assessment survey
    H Moore, G Wilson, M Carruther
    (EASE Archaeology)
    NM 00 45 (area) A survey of the coast of Tiree was conducted in November 2001. A 50–100 m strip was investigated around the entire coastline for the presence of built heritage and archaeological remains. A total of 141 sites were found, of which 85 represent previously unrecorded remains. Of particular interest are a possible prehistoric enclosure and field system at Port Snoig (NL 9710 3881) and a possible Norse settlement or chapel at Loch Dubh a Gharaidh Fail (NM 0275 4859).
    Observations on the coastal geomorphology and hinterland geology were also recorded. As part of this project, a programme of public outreach, including basicvarchaeological training, was carried out in association with local residents.

    Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2002, p. 25
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