Archaeology
Subject
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Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle and accompanying sketch, c1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/69
Scope and Contents
Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle [Loch Sgadabhagh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] including a sketch plan of the ruins there with their dimensions, noting that there is a place for the boat at the door an destimating the age [of ruins] to be two or three hundred years old. Carmichael states that the loch is named after the island of Scadabhagh which is 'low, green & flat' and notes that thick heather or eilteach grows there. He adds that there is a pillar about five feet high at...
Dates:
c1869
Archaeological notes on ruins at Croice near Bornish, 19 March 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/67
Scope and Contents
Archaeological notes on ruins at Croice near Bornish [Cròic a Deas, Bornais, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] describing Carmichael's visit there, how he was looking at and for the ruins as well as a description of what he found including that the scattered remains of a building could be found within half a foot at low water on the spring tide, that in digging down a few inches he found remains of a plant and peat moss with sand and gravel and the hard buttresses 'like broken pieces of old ruins...
Dates:
19 March 1874
Archaeological notes, sketches and story relating to Teampull An Tao Deas or Teampuil an t Sagairt, 12 July1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/82
Scope and Contents
Archaeological notes, sketches and story relating to Teampull An Tao Deas or Teampuil an t Sagairt, [Teampull an Taobh Deas/Teampull an t-Sagairt Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris]. The first sketch shows a plan of the building with measurements, noting the height of the wall as 7 feet, the breadth 10 feet and the height of the door out 5 feet. Also noted re the dimensions of the altar. A second sketch is a copy plan, with a scaled attached to it. The measurements have not been written on this and...
Dates:
12 July1870
Bound lecture notes of Ethelwyn Lemon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh.
Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols)
Notes of...
Dates:
1892-1931
Custom and archaeological finds relating to Eala, September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/25
Scope and Contents
Custom and archaeological finds relating to Eala [possibly Clach na h-Ealaidh, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The archaeological finds were pins, brooches and bones while the custom of retreating to Eala for a year and a day is described. Having completed their retreat people would emerge white-washed. Carmichael also mentions the location of the nunnery, the well where the nuns would wash [Tobar nam baintighearna at Creagan-nam-baintea[gh]rna] and another building near the...
Dates:
September 1870
Denti Humana monstrose dimensiones, 1691
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [66]
Scope and Contents
A jotting, with crude drawing, of an archaeological curiousity in Hixham in Northumberland.
Dates:
1691
Description and sketch of an airi [àiridh], 17 October 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/86
Scope and Contents
Description and sketch of an airi [àiridh] about five miles south of Ness [Nis, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. The shape and composition of the àiridh is noted along with the measurements of the walls. Carmichael also records his reaction to the building, ' My first fe[e]l[in]g on enter[in]g this airi was that of being scared - face to face with things 1000 y[ea]rs ago - The up end of house so unlike aught I had seen before.' He describes another 'both' [bothan or bothy] as having a 'raised...
Dates:
17 October 1873
Description of a circular archaeological feature, September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/134
Scope and Contents
Description of a circular archaeological featur, probably on Isle of Barra [Barraigh] which reads 'On an arti[ficial] isl[and] [Flat] pollag / not more than 2 in d[iameter] one side & tapering to the surf[ace] Circular'.
Dates:
September 1872
Description of archaeological finds at Ath-cloiche, c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/55
Scope and Contents
Description of archaeological finds at Ath-cloiche, Iocar [possibly Taigh Cloiche, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and the situation of the site. The finds were three miasun [cogs] which 'were excavated by the ax whose marks were left upon them'. The site is covered with moss.
Dates:
c1872
Description of Dùn Uislan, 5 April 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/51
Scope and Contents
Description of the condition, appearance and situation of Dùn Uislan on Loch Uislan [Dùn Uisealan, Loch Uisealan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] collected from Hector MacIosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Kean Langabhat, Iochdar [Ceann Langabhat, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist].
Dates:
5 April 1872