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Tiree Craggans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1947

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References

1 E. Estyn Evans, Irish Heritage, 1942.

2 Proc. Soc. Ant, Scot., 1860–2, IV, 72.

3 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, 11, 25–33.

4 About 1880 some attempt was made to commercialize this pseudocraft. Rough specimens in the forms of teapots, egg cups, etc., were advertized and sold. The industry did not last long.

5 A. Goodrich-Freer, The Outer Isles, 1902, XVIII, 425.

6 One must always bear in mind the Highlander’s tendency to exaggerate in order to impress the Sassenach.

7 Martin Martin, Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, 1703, The Island of Tiree.

8 E. Estyn Evans, Irish Heritage, 1942, 11, 10.

9 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, 11, 29.

10 Erskine Beveridge, Coll and Tiree, their Prehistoric Forts and Ecclesiastical Antiquities, 1903, IX, 70.

11 Bearing in mind the homogeneity of Hebridean culture the writer makes this statement with certain reserve. It may be found that this belief had a wider distribution than is at present recorded.

12 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, 11, 28 ; Erskine Beveridge, Coll and Tiree, 1903, IX, 70.

13 Hector MacDougall and Hector Cameron, Coll and Tiree, 76.

14 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, II, 26–8.

15 Whether Hugh MacNeil meant the true ‘coil’ method, or the more common ‘ring’ method was not, unfortunately, ascertained at the time of the enquiry, or subsequently. It is more probable that the latter method was implied.

16 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, II, 28.

17 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scotland, 1907–8.

18 Martin Martin, Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, 1703, The Isle of Lewis.

19 ANTIQUITY, 1940, XIV, 148–53.

20 Arthur Mitchell, Past in the Present, 1880, II, 26–8.

21 E. C. Curwen, The Hebrides: a Cultural Backwater, ANTIQUITY, XII, 280–2.

22 This view is also evinced by G. Graham Callendon when referring to certain sherds, inhis report on the pottery found by Erskine Beveridge in the group of earth-houses at Foshigarry, North Uist. Proc. Soc. Ant., Scotland, 1930–1, LXV, 346.

23 Erskine Beveridge, North Uist, 1911,V, 119.

24 Erskine Beveridge, Coll and Tiree, 1903, X , 94.

25 Erskine Beveridge, Coll and Tiree, IX, 70.

26 Erskine Beveridge, Coll and Tiree, XI and XV, also The Sandhill Sites of Balevzdlin, Kilmaluaig and Balephuil, to be published by the author.