Coasts
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeological note on Tarasaigh/Taransay sites exposed by coastal erosion, 8 July 1870
Archaeological note on Tarasaigh/Taransay sites exposed by coastal erosion describing how faces of the bank are left exposed by the sea and how layers of shells and darker sand with the ends of buildings can be seen and how 'By the side of some old and beautifully built expose[d] wall is the root of the gallan at least 4f[ee]t down fr[om the] sun.'
Archaeological notes on Bearnaray Harris, 29 April 1871
Burbank Spineless Opuntia - Pacific Coast, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the waves of the Pacific Ocean crashing into the coast with the text beneath noting that Opuntia plants can grown in this environment.
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Note about a man who recollects the Aoi isthmus being ploughed, 10 July 1870
Note about a man who recollects the Aoi isthmus [Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] being ploughed although it is now 'sand hills and a big strand washed by the sea'.
Note about coastline of Loch Fyne, Tarbert, June 1887
Note about the coastline of Loch Fyne, Tarbert [Loch Fìne, An Tairbeirt, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The text has been scored through in pencil.
Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870
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.
Notes and story about the strand 'Mol na h-Aoi' and 'Mol na Hearadh', November 1873
Notes and story about the strand 'Mol na h-Aoi' and 'Mol na Hearadh' [Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] that there 'trees + riasg du[bh] sleamhain[n] du[bh] all over the strand at [very] low water' and how the places becomes 'black' when the swell carries away the sand and stones. The story tells how a man in Tarb[ert] [Tairbeart] built a vessel from timber taken from Mol na Hearadh and that the location of the Mol is 'the strand below Alin'.