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Stones

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the inside cover with 'Alexander A Carmichael Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist 15/7 1870 Note Book No 8'. The majority of this notebook contains material collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay from the MacDonalds at Paible House, Mor or Marion MacQueen and Donald MacKinnon including notes on the island's archaeology, local history and geographical changes, with stories of how coastal erosion revealed burial sites and renditions of...
Dates: 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Note about a quarry on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/48
Scope and Contents

Note about a quarry on Tarasaigh/Taransay which reads 'Near Uamh Mhic Cailein [possibly Uamh Mhic Ailein] is a quarry of flags as fine as any of the Caithness flags. It c[o]u[l]d be worked to advantage. Flags were taken from here to Fincastle.'

Dates: 10 July 1870
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

 Item
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

Note about a stone belonging to Angus Macinns [MacInnes], piper, 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/94
Scope and Contents

Note about a stone belonging to Angus Macinns [MacInnes], piper to James Stewart, esquire, of Fasnacloich [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and his wife Ann Stewart. The note states that the piper was at Culloden.

Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about archaeological finds at Dun chrubain, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/64
Scope and Contents

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.

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

Note about archaeological finds at Iocar a chlachain, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/73
Scope and Contents

Note stating that skewers or dealga fionntrain and stone needles were among the many archaeological finds uncovered while digging drains at Iocar a chlachain [Ìochdar a' Chlachain, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

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

Note about Barpa Reineval, 21 September 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/86
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Barpa Reineval Milton [a] chamber [in] glen s[outh] of mill Frobost' [Barpa Reineabhal or Barp Frobost, Àirigh Mhuilinn, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist].

Dates: 21 September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about burnt stones, August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/139
Scope and Contents

Note about burnt stones, that some were found at Eas Ghairichidh [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and that they float.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about geometrically proportioned stones in Appin, 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/175
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about geometrically proportioned stones found on Beinn Aulay [Beinn Fhionnlaidh], Glencreran, Beinn Starbh, on the south of Locheite [Ben Starv, Loch Èite/Loch Etive], and on Scurra Chòis [Sgorr a' Choise] [all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/35
Scope and Contents

Note about Mol-garbh [Mol Garbh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] describing it as a 'remarkable inst[ance] of the pow[er] of the waves in heap[ing] up a beach' and comparing the height of the beach with the mol on the isthmus.

Dates: 8 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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