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Archaeology

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Naìndor Fettich, 10 December 1933

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1125
Scope and Contents

Letter, 10 December 1933, Budapest, N. Fettich to Donald Tovey. Informing Tovey of the discovery in an old grave the discovery of a seventh or eighth century wind instrument that looks like a double flute. Holograph signed.

Dates: 10 December 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

List of names of wells and chapel on Barra, 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/14
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List of names of wells and a chapel on Barra [Barraigh], possibly all around Loch Tangasdail, including Tobar nam Buagh, Caibeal Loch Thangastail or Caisteal St-Clair [Dún Mhic Leòid], and in Eoligarry are Tobar Bharra and Tobar Mhoire.

Dates: 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Material relating to antiquarian and archaeological sites in the Outer Hebrides, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW362
Scope and Contents Assorted draft articles, sketches and correspondence relating to antiquarian and archaeological sites in Uist and Barra. Among the material is a manuscript by Alexander Carmichael titled 'Promiscuous [sic] Antiquities in the Long Island, anciently known as Innis Cat and now known as Innis Fada or Eileinn Fada', 27 April 1872; and a sketchbook titled 'Feudal Castles of the Outer Hebrides'; a manuscript by Captain F.W.L. Thomas titled 'On the Defensive Architecture of the Outer Hebrides';...
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Note about a bronze brooch and pin found on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/51
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Note about a bronze brooch and pin found on Tarasaigh/Taransay by Mr Don[ald] MacDonald and given to Capt[ain] Thomas and deposited in the Antiquarian Museum in Edinburgh 'for which the late Mr [-] MacDonald Taransay got a letter of thanks from the Curators'.

Dates: 10 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about a building at Castle Chaifin [Castle Coeffin], September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/82
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Note which reads 'Below the entrance to Castle Chaifin [Castle Coeffin, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] was some large building some 40 y[ards] x 10 [yards].

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

Note about a Celtic cross at Cloi na Mac Rì, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/239
Scope and Contents

Note about a Celtic cross at Cloi na Mac Rì [Glenamachrie, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The location is given as a round sharp hillock close to the road but the original location as 'down behind garden and outhouses'.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/9
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Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay that it is 'a round lump the rem[ains] of an old dun on the slope of the hill & near the sea'.

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

Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/43
Scope and Contents Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay giving its dimensions as seventeen yards in diameter and describing the remains of it as the foundations 'all a grassy mound' on the slope of a hill and how a narrow passge leads from the outside to the centre. It was said that Dùn Loch an Dùin could be seen from this dun so that it 'Must have been 100 f[ee]t high'. Carmichael notes that there is 'A lump of a hill betw[een] these two duns' and that Capt[ain] Thomas made a plan of the dun some years...
Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about a gravestone in Inch Kenneth, 17 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/52
Scope and Contents

Note about a gravestone in Inch Kenneth, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire which reads 'Anoth[er] stone 1778 - Form sculp[tured] stone in native rock but beautifully sculp[te]d.'

Dates: 17 August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about a ridge and boulders near Lonan, 21 September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/238
Scope and Contents

Note about a ridge and boulders near Lonan [Lonain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including 'Lairig a fheoi' which is 'wher[e] Lonan begins at Barra Goillean [Barguillean]' and 'Ugh a gheoi' described as 'a boulder now'. Also noted are black stones in 'amair na h-aibhne' [the river bed] and on the side of the river at Clacha Dubha [Clachadow].

Dates: 21 September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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