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Archaeology

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

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Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
Scope and Contents

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'

Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Place-name and archaeological notes relating to Loisgcintir [Losgaintir/Luskentyre], 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/2
Scope and Contents Place-name and archaeological notes relating to Loisgcintir [Losgaintir/Luskentyre, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] made on a journey with Rev Donald MacKintosh, priest, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Mr Archie MacRae, Huisinis, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, observing a small old building on 'Tar'cul (cal?) Taigh Mhic Loaig [deleted]' noting that the place-name elements Lusk and Lisk are common in Scotland and in Denmark and how Mr Don[ald] MacRae remembers that when he was ten years old his...
Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Place-name note for Crois-an-t suidheachain and Leapanan Chaluim Chille, 8 August 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/39
Scope and Contents

Place-name note probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay for which reads 'Crois-an-t suidheachain. A place the priests had for perform[ing] div[ine] worship. Leapanan Chaluim Chille is close at hand.' Carmichael adds a reminder to 'See cross at Dunganich' [Dùn Gainmhich/Dunganichy Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: 8 August 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Place-name note for Taransay, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/6
Scope and Contents

Place-name note which reads 'An Dun above the houses in Taransaidh, Dun Chlach north of this. Aird Mhanuis (Manus) arable land.' [Dùn , Dùn Chlach, Àird Mhànais, Tarasaigh/Taransay]

Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Placename note entitled 'Na Duin', 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/45
Scope and Contents

Placename note entitled 'Na Duin' [Na Dùin or The Duns] listing fifteen duns on Beàrnaraigh/Berneray, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Pabaigh/Pabbay, Sanndraigh/Sandray, Bhatarsaigh/Vatersay and Barraigh/Isle of Barra.

Dates: 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Plans: Barbican "appendix" plans, 1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5a
Scope and Contents Set of 7 copy plans relating to the Barbican Area of London, each with a red star shaped sticker giving an appendix number. The plans are: Appendix 1: "Barbican Site Plan no 1" - site plan at approximately 1:1250 scale giving details of planning permission for 27 numbered sites, 31 July 1954 Appendix 2: - "Barbican Site Sections no 2" - 3 sections across the site as marked on plan above,...
Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London / City of London: New Barbican / New Barbican: plans

Proceedings of a conference - Mycenaean Colloquium 1961 - held in Wisconsin 1961

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1174
Scope and Contents The papers - the proceedings - contain the following pieces: Pylos Tablet Un 1322 - Dr. John Chadwick, Downing College, Cambridge, pp.1-11 Le grafie del wau nella scrittura micenea - Prof. Carlo Gallavotti, Rome, pp.12-22 The origins of Minoan architecture - Prof. J. Walter Graham, University of Toronto, p.23 Overland communications in Greece during LH...
Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Report of textiles from Çatal Hüyük, 1965

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/203
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1965 - 1966. Volume 4 of 19.

Dates: 1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Rough sketch of stones between Muir of Ord and Urrad [Urray] Church, 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/12
Scope and Contents

Rough sketch of stones between Muir of Ord and Urrad [Urray] Church including 'several small stones on a [-] cairn'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Sketch of a cross [at Cille Chiarain/Kilchiarain], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/61
Scope and Contents

Sketch of a cross probably at Cille Chiarain/Kilchiaran, Ìle/Islay, giving some of its dimensions.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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