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Archaeology

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

Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:

Story under the heading 'Roin' about Odar and an archaeological dig, c1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/27
Scope and Contents Story under the heading 'Roin' about Odar and an archaeological dig collected from Niell MacCuiein [Neil MacQuien or MacQueen], crofter and tailor, Middlequarter, North Uist [Ceathramh Meadhanach, Uibhist a Tuath]. The story tells how Odar requested that half of the Haisgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles] seals should be buried with his head and the other half divided amongst the eight pennylands in Scolpeig and Chill a Pheadair [Scolpaig, Cille Pheadair/Kilpheder] noting that some of the...
Dates: c1875
f. 96r
f. 96r

The Sir Walter Elliot Archive

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1860
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of seven Indian copper plate charters in Sanskrit recrding land grants, dating from the 5th to 16th centuries CE, and of three volumes containing rubbings of inscriptions from different regions of India, collected by Sir Walter Elliot throughout the 19th century.

Dates: 5th-19th centuries

Two sketch plans of Dun-Torcuil, 28 May 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/28
Scope and Contents

Two sketch plans of Dun-Torcuil [Dùn Thorcuill/Dun Torcuill, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist], the first noting the dimensions of the walls including any difference between the sizes at the bottom or the top of the wall, and the location of the passageway. The circular shape of the dun has been marked into four sections and measured according to those areas. The second has also been marked in this way but contains many fewer measurements.

Dates: 28 May 1871

Two stories about candlesticks, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/46
Scope and Contents

Two stories about candlesticks, the first telling how one was found on the Crois [Crois Dubh Lios Mòr or Black Cross of Lismore, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], giving a description of it and the other tells how a gold candlestick was found in the grave of a daughter of Ni[ghean] Mac Coll Rugarbh, Benderloch [Rhugarbh, Meudarloch] about forty years before [c 1830].

Dates: September 1870

Verse beginning 'A shiubhlas an rod mar a bheann' and accompanying archaeological note, 5 April 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/45
Scope and Contents

Verse beginning 'A shiubhlas an rod mar a bheann' and accompanying archaeological note collected from Hector MacIosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Kean Langabhat, Iochdar [Ceann Langabhat, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The note states that 'Roilig ni Ruari is a raon bet[ween] two maolads with a big stone pillar...this pillar is Ni[ghea]n Ruari.'

Dates: 5 April 1872