Antiquities
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A7 - Medical Archives and Antiques, 16 Jun 1982 - 12 Oct 1989
File
Identifier: LHB7/8/83
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of Medical Archive Centre Advisory Committee and reports on the art and antiquarian holdings of the Health Board.
Dates:
16 Jun 1982 - 12 Oct 1989
Antiquities, 19th Century
sub-series
Identifier: Coll-244/1/1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript books on the subject of antiquities.
Dates:
19th Century
'Contributions sent to the Museum not previously described', c 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW457
Scope and Contents
Detailed descriptions of items sent to the [National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh] by Alexander Carmichael, including a 'sculpture stone' from Bearnaray, Harris; a baptismal font from Pabbay, Barra; and 'Fingal's shoe', a 'shoe-like' stone from the Isle of Skye.
Dates:
c 1870
Edinburgh Plinian Society
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-275
Scope and Contents
The records of the Edinburgh Plinian Society consist of a Minute Book for the period 1826-1828 and a Minute Book for the period 1828-1841. Appended to the relevant volume is a note of the references to the membership of Charles Darwin.
Dates:
1826-1841
Papers of John Abercromby, 5th Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-55
Scope and Contents
The collection holds a 19th century Irish manuscript with covering letter dated 1884. There are a large number of letters and postcards spanning the years 1881 to 1916. The collection also consists of notebooks on archaeological, philological and linguistic topics; drawings of archaeological artefacts; bundles of studies for The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns; material on the tabulation of Finnish folk tales; printed items, notes, photographs of the Canary Islands; material including...
Dates:
before 1881-1916