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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Note on vocabulary for 'castle passage', 14 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/4
Scope and Contents
Note on vocabulary that 'Laine' and 'Loine' are words for 'castle passage'.
Dates:
14 August 1883
Notes on a mill at Loch a chrombaich Farm and accompanying sketches, 9 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/41
Scope and Contents
Notes on a mill at Loch a chrombaich Farm [Loch Cromlach Farm, Tarasaigh/Taransay] describing how it is 'one of the old Big mills still working' unlike another one 'at Ceann-an Ol at junction of the Avonsui & Storno[wa]y road' [Ceann an Ora and Abhainnsuidhe, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris and Steòrnabhagh, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] which has not been working 'since 10 or 16 y[ea]rs' [c1854-1860]. Carmichael gives a detailed description of the mill including dimensions, construction,...
Dates:
9 July 1870
Vocabulary for 'fire' and 'wall recess', August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/39
Scope and Contents
Note on vocabulary that 'buthail' is a recess in a wall and 'aingeal' means a fire probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire.
Dates:
August 1883
Vocabulary note and note about architectural terms, c1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/9
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note and note about architectural terms which reads 'Bugar = Foot of couples = lan-ain in a house. The upright that stands in the wall of the house. Generally of oak. This is the term used at Overcroy, Cumbernauld 5th Aug[ust] 1891. Here on that date with Archaeological Association'.
Dates:
c1893