Bones
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Turner, 14 December [1910]
Turner thanks Ewart for sending him the cutting from The Field and describes the bones he has acquired from various whales.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Boyd Dawkins (incomplete), 08 December 1907
Dawkins writes that he is sure the Glastonbury Committee will allow Ewart to study the remains of horses among their collections of refuse bones and provides the address of the master digger. He adds that he has not received 'the Roman Skulls from Newstead.'
The latter part of the letter, including author's signature, is unclear, but the address matches that of William Boyd Dawkins.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Gordon, 27 September 1913
Gordon hopes that the ewe and spotted lamb arrived safely in Leith. He provides details about the price his lambs fetched in Aberdeen. He writes that he is going on with the excavation of the Brough and has found some stone implements as well as the bones of horses, cattle and sheep, which he offers to send to Ewart for investigation.
Morphology of medullary bone during the egg formation cycle, 1990
Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1990. Part 2.
Note about archaeological finds at Dun chrubain, September 1870
Note collected from John Black, aged eighty-six, Killean, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about archaeological finds at Dun chrubain [Dùn hrùban] including a bone ring, three inches in diameter, a sword head and animal teeth. Black states that he and his brother cleared out the rubbish and found nine fireplaces inside. The description of the fireplaces is unclear.
Note about bones found on Fuday, September 1872
Note about bones found on Fuday [Fuidheigh] that there was a skull 'as large as a pot of 2 gal[lons]' which at first sight looked human but the others were an ordinary size.
Note on stones and graveyard on Inch Kenneth, 17 August 1886
Note on stones and graveyard on Inch Kenneth, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire noting the gravestones as being of 'native stone', one marked as 'H M 1676', and telling how the graveyard had been 'more extensive' as a farmer had ploughed up 'cut skulls', noting the present farmer to be Lach[lan] Campbell.