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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Numbered Manuscript Collection

 

 

 

SAS Mss No.

Description

28

Papers on antiquities, chiefly primitive,32 manuscripts, including:

•       Malcolm Macphail, ‘The Pictish castles of the Outer Hebrides’ (a)

•       Capt. Thomas, ‘Ancient valuation of land in the West of Scotland’ and ‘         What is a pennyland?’, both fuller than the versions printed in P.S.A.S,         xii.200 and xviii.253 (c);

•       (d)

•       List of archaeological remains in Macleods Country , Skye (e)

•       (f)

•       (g)

•       William G.T.Watt, letter on farming (h)

•       (i)

•       notes on runrig (k);

•       plans and sketches of prehistoric remains in the Channel Islands and         Morbihan (1);

•       (j) chapels named in Origins Parochiales

•       plans and sketches of a dun (Clachtoll) near Stoer, 1881 (m).

31

Plans etc. of stone circle and dolmens in Correze and Lot, from drawings by the Rev.S.Baring Gould, 1892.

45

Notebook containing a collection of miscellaneous sketches – 17 pieces of paper

46

Photograph of rubbing of elephant on symbol-stone at Shandwick, Ross.

50

A survey of Bute and the Cumbraes, ‘ by Dorothy N. Marshall, offered for the Chalmers-Jervise Prize, 1942

51

 50 Photographs of the Bell Collection of antiquities mounted on cardboard  (30.5cm x 25.5).

158

Map of part of St. Kilda, showing holdings, 1860. Original conserved + rolled photocopy

162

Papers of the Mercer family: facsimiles of charters etc. 25 papers

168

Rubbings of panels in a chair-back at Golspie.

172

·         Letter of Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, regarding a version of Ossian’s Address to the Sun, 1808;

·         Letter of James Ewing, Levenside, on the Roman fort at Duntocher and vandalism at Dumbarton Castle, 1842;

·         Descriptions of Roman altars and a distance-slab from the Wall and neighbourhood, by Dr.John Buchanan, 1849;etc.

 

173

Lithographs of objects, prehistoric and later, in the collection of James Isles, St.Ninian’s, Blairgowrie. 20 sheets.260 mm x 190 mm.

175

(a) ‘Catalogue raisonnee of the loan collection from Oransay and Colonsay…. International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883.  William Galloway….exhibitor.’

(b) ‘Note on the skeleton of a Scandinavian war horse, two cross-graven slabs, three Anglo-Saxon stycas, &c., found in immediate connection with the Viking grave, Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, ‘ by W.Galloway.

(c) ‘Notice of three cists of the Neolithic period….at Urragaig, Colonsay…opened May 18th, 1882, by William Galloway’

            (f.1); ‘Incised stone found in a cist at Kilchatten, Colonsay’

            (f.15); ‘Celt and sinker-stone found at Urragaig’ (f.17).

(d)  Photographs of an incised stone, a skeleton, and a pot.

178

‘Some implements and weapons of the Stone Age,’ an account of the antiquities of Roxburghshire, with drawings. 12 sheets

179

Tardenoisian implements from Dryburgh; by Thomas L.Stirling (Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay). 10 pages of typed notes, 3 sheets with drawing, 1 map

180

5 Photographs of the Museum of the Society and its contents, in the Royal Institution. Mounted on card. 3 smallest are 214mm x 133mm, 2 larger are 200 mm x 301 mm

181

4 Photographs of carved oak panels from the Franciscan Nunnery at Dundee. Mounted on card. Largest is 265mm x 228mm

184

 2 Drawings of a stone axe found in Montgomery Street, Edinburgh with note, 1897. 1 outline of dimensions, 1 sketch.

188

Drawings of ornament and other markings on objects from the Traprain hoard, made as illustrations to A.O.Curle, The Treasure of Traprain, by William Frater.76 pieces of loose paper.

NB. Many sketches on small scraps of paper have come loose from original paper mounts.

189

14 Photographs, Brazil, 1885. Most are of Indian rock-inscriptions in Amazonas, 1 of native inhabitants & 1 of expedition team

Some are reproduced in P.S.A.S, xix.

192

Photo of an urn from Tormore, Arran and a photo of 7 bronze vessels found near Helmsdale 1868

197

Manuscript by the Earl of Buchan of an address on Sir James Steuart Denham’s ‘Plan for Introducing an Uniformity of Weights and Measures,’ delivered to the Society in 1781, with memoranda and draft of a letter to a printer. 7 loose sheets, A4 paper

198

Drawings of a bronze blade possibly from Shuna, Argyll, 1874, of a halberd-head in the British Museum, said to have been found near Culloden, 1889, and of a bronze dagger from the Culbin Sands; drawing of a canoe found near Point House Ferry on the Clyde in 1851; drawings and paintings, some perhaps by Lady John Scott, of crannogs and canoes in Dowalton Loch.8 drawings in total. (check B chest…)

200

Plans and sections of megalithic monuments at Bagneux, Maine-et-Loire, and in Morbihan, by Sir Henry Dryden and W.C.Lukis, 1860-8.

205

Letters to John Stuart, Secretary to the Society, on crannogs, runes, etc., 1861-5, n.d., with some animadversions on Karl Christian Rafn,1861. The writers include George Stephens, George Petrie, Peter Andreas Munch, Sir Anthony Panizzi, Ferdinand Keller, and Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.

Around 73 letters.

206

Papers collected by James Thomas Irvine. All relate to English or foreign buildings or objects except some architect’s drawings of St.Monance church in (e).

(a) Architectural drawings by John Drayton Wyatt, 1849, 1854. + catalogue of Library of C.R. Smith 1891 & catalogue of Lanseer Proof engravings, 1891

207

Notes on Celtic bells by J.Graham Callander, ca. 1926.1 newspaper cutting, 7 sheets of paper.

208

6 Photographs of mediaeval or later jars from Ayr and Forfar. Mounted on card.

210

5 Photographs of harps and targes of John Steuart of Dalguise, Cf. P.S.A.S,xv. Mounted on card. 219mm x 142mm.

215

1 Drawing of a stone implement found in the parish of Croy, with 3 letters, dated 4, 8 & 9 March 1892.

221

Rubbings of brasses at Thame, Oxon.1 very large rolled sheet 1905mm x 925mm. 2 smaller pieces at  240mm x 250mm and  250mm x 450 mm

226

Rubbings of stones and brasses in Madeira (Funchal, Santa Cruz) by George Seton, 1894. 3 sheets Rolled.

2 largest : 1195mm x 775mm ; smallest 442mm x 566mm

227

Rubbings of brasses at Thame and Oxford. 3 large sheets, 2 smaller, long narrow strips Rolled.

229

Rubbings of brasses at Queen’s College, Oxford. 4 sheets

Rolled. Largest 925mm x 595mm.

233

Rubbings of brasses at Oxford and elsewhere in Oxfordshire, Fairford, and Dublin Cathedral 1844, 1848. 17 rolls and 13 flat sheets

243

2 Photographs of charter given by Adam, Prior of Coldingham, 1536, and of grant by James VI relating thereto, 1608 + 2 small notes.Rolled.

245-60

Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie, from Aberdeen (256); Thame, Oxon (252); Waterperry, Oxon (249); Westminster Abbey (247, 250, 258); and Oxford: Magdalen (253, 260); Merton (246, 248); New College (245, 251-2, 255, 257, 259); and St. Peter’s in the East (252).  Details are given in old index of MSS., I.F.1-16.

245.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled

246.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Merton  College, Oxford. Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

247.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Westminster Abbey Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

248.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Merton  College, Oxford. Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

249.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Waterperry, Oxon Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top (106.5cm width).

250.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Westminster Abbey Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

251.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

252.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

253.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Magdalen  College, Oxford. Rolled round metal rung with wooden frame piece at top. (106.5cm width)

255.      Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled

256.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie, from Aberdeen

257.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled

258.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Westminster Abbey Rolled

259.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; New College, Oxford. Rolled

260.         Rubbings of brasses, by George Petrie ; Magdalen  College, Oxford. Rolled

263

Rubbings of slabs in Trondhjem Cathedral, 1874.

269

Genealogical chart of the MacCrimmon family. George C.B. Poulter.’

277

Contract between the Royal Association of Contributors to the National Monument of Scotland and William and Lewis Alexander Wallace and their cautioners for the building of the Monument, (?) 1826. Mutilated. See P.S.A.S, xxii.63. Rolled.

279

Drawings of a wooden object, perhaps a trap, from Glenluce. See P.S.A.S, xxv.73. Rolled.

284

26 Photographs of Saxon crosses in N.England (Duhram, Lindisfarne, Nasham, Stamfordham), of a sarcophagus at Jedburgh (see R.C.A.M., Roxburghshire, ii), and of a chalice, with a letter of Canon Greenwell, 1891.

287

13 Photographs of 12th-century ciborium of the Balfours of Burleigh. See P.S.A.S, 1ii.8. Mounted on 4 cardboard sheets,

288

Drawings of representations of Highland harps on sculptured stones.

9 drawings mounted on 2 sheets of paper

290

Plans of forts in Essex, by Edward Andrews Downham 1897

Photolithographed. 4 sheets.

292

Miscellaneous plans and drawings, many being of unnamed sites and unidentifiable objects.  All are entered in the Index. Those whose site or provenance is not given are:

  • market cross (21);
  • buildings, inscription, and figurine (32);
  • weapons, tools, and images, apparently from Oceania (24);
  • implements of stone hafted into bone, labelled ‘Dr. Daniel Wilson, Toronto’ (25);
  • site of find of deer’s horns and human skeleton (?cairn) (26);
  • (?) fort on promontory (27);
  • (?) fort by the sea (28);
  • cairn, ‘Mound no.ii’ (29);
  • cists with contents (30)
  • (?) earth-houses (32, 36);
  • building (33);
  • urn in cist (35).

 

(1)        4 drawings of wooden locks from Norway

(2)        2 section drawings ; basement of Ardmore Tower & basement of  Cloyne             Tower, 3 drawings Abernethy tower + 3 photos of these 3 drawings

(3)        2 drawings mounted on 1 sheet of paper of  building in Inverness-shire.             Reproduced in PSAS v, 119

(4)        drawing

(5)        drawing + plan of fort Au Dun

(6)        2 drawings of Regent Murray’s tomb, St Giles 1826

(7)        watercolour painting of MacBelles Castle

(8)        4 drawings of St Michael’s temple, Keallum

(9)        sketch of fragments of a burnt clay urn found in a short cist near Kelso             Abbey, May 1864

(10)      3 drawings of monuments/slabs at church of Kinkell. See PSAS lxxxi, 43

(11)      Plan of building at Luffness, East Lothian 29/10/1858

(12)      Drawing of Broch of Mousa, Shetland July 1865. G Petrie

(13)      Drawing of mortar found in railway cutting near Newstead

(14)      Plan of Cave at Oban, Jan. 1895.See PSAS xxix, 214

(15)      Drawing of effigy in the area of the choir of St Mary’s Church Rothesay.             See PSAS ii, 467

(16)      Rubbing of inscribed rock, Stirling

(17)      Sketches on small bit of card of flint flakes, bronze pin & crania found in             stone circles, Tormore

(18)      Drawing of shale necklace from a cist at Torrish, Kildonan, April 26th             1870

(19)      Drawing of henge like monument, India

(20)      Plan of Shau’s Cairn

(21)      Drawing of pillar monument with unicorn on top

(22)      Sheet of paper with misc. sketches (figs. 1- 6) of plans + inscriptions

(23)      Drawing of brooch from Gotland

(24)      Sheet of paper with misc. sketches (fig. 1 –10) ethnographic

(25)      Envelope with 17 drawings of misc.stone & bone artefacts. No             provenance

(26)      2 sheets with plans, 1825

(27)      plan (?) of fort on promontory?

(28)      Plan (?) fort by the sea

(29)      Sketch of cist and finds from cist – identified as “mound No.II)

(30)      Plan of cist

(31)      Sketch

(32)      Plan

(33)      2 pieces of card – 1 sketch of 2 chiselled stones, Roman(?)

(34)      2 sheets of paper. Plans of structure from Crichton, Midlothian.             Reproduced in PSAS li

(35)      sketch of urn/food vessel in cist

(36)      plan

295

4 Photographs of the Invermay tankard, mounted on card.

296

Drawings of Viking grave on Colonsay and its contents.

298

Photograph of jet necklace from Pitruchie, Angus.

300

Photographs of bronze hoard from Migdale, See P.S.A.S, xxxv.266

301

2 Photographs of a Faeroese bismar. See P.S.A.S, xxxii.52, original mounting.

302

5 Photographs of Midside Maggie’s Girdle (reproduced in P.S.A.S, xxxii.197), a Greek helmet, and armlet from Pitalpin (see P.S.A.S, xv.344).

305

4 Photographs of bronze armlet found at Achavrail, Rogart, in 1901, reproduced in P.S.A.S, xxxviii.467.

307

27 Miscellaneous photographs, 1864-95, n.d.  They include:

  • coracle in the Elgin Museum (3);
  • tombstone of the  MacNeils, Crowners of Bute, 1887 (4);
  • inscribed stone in Lauder old manse (5);
  • objects from crannog at Hyndford (see P.S.A.S, xxxiii.373) (6);
  • stone cists found at Invergowrie in 1887 (8);
  • antiquities from the Fordoun district (9);
  • tape-loom from Ardclach, Nairnshire (11);
  • brooch from Dorusduain, Kintail (13);
  • Scandinavian bronze ornament bearing runes, from Greenmouth Castle, Bellingham, Co. Louth (see P.S.A.S, ix.221) (15);
  • pistol made in Dundee, ca. 1700 (see P.S.A.S,xxii276) (16);
  • fort at Suidhe Chennaidh, Kilchrenan (see P.S.A.S, xxiii.413) (17);
  • gold armlet from Chatham (18);
  • brooches etc. from Croy (19).

 

On original mounting

28 photographs in total:

(1)        arrowhead collection

(2)        arrowhead from Glenluce

(3)        coracle from the Elgin Museum

(4)        tombstone of the  MacNeils, Crowners of Bute, 1887

(5)        inscribed stone in Lauder old manse (5);

(6)        objects from crannog at Hyndford (see P.S.A.S, xxxiii.373) ;

(7)        3 separate photos numbered 7 daggers

(8)        3 photos of stone cists found at Invergowrie in 1887 );

(9)        antiquities from the Fordoun district (9);

(10)      side view of Newton Stone

(11)      tape-loom from Ardclach, Nairnshire (11);

(12)      2 photos numbered 12, one of hoard perhaps from Orkney, & one of             large maceheads

(13)      brooch from Dorusduain, Kintail (13);

(14)      canon dredged up from sea

(15)      Scandinavian bronze ornament bearing runes, from Greenmouth Castle,               Bellingham, Co. Louth (see P.S.A.S, ix.221) (15);

(16)      pistol made in Dundee, ca. 1700 (see P.S.A.S,xxii276) (16);

(17)      fort at Suidhe Chennaidh, Kilchrenan (see P.S.A.S, xxiii.413)

(18)      gold armlet from Chatham (18);

(19)      brooches etc. from Croy (19).

(20)      Highland shield

(21)      Stone axe

(22)      unknown

(23)      Photo of unidentified old man

(24)      unknown

308

6 Photographs of round-bottomed urns at Campbeltown, Dr.T.H.Bryce. Photos are loose and unmounted

311

2 Photographs of urns from Denbeath, Fife, with letter of John Patrick, 1906.

314

Drawings of urns and stone-hammer from Scotstown Partick, 1886.

2 sheets

316

Rubbing of brass Highland brooch from Elgin, copy of the inscription and letter, 1899.

321

Letter of W. Mackie Greig and other papers regarding cist burials at Lochside, Stenness, 1928.

Letter dated 2/4/1928 , newspaper cutting, letter dated 7/4/1928, 2 sheets of typed notes concerning two skulls from Orkney

324

8 Photographs of sculptured stones at St. Vigeans.  See P.S.A.S, ix.

325

6 Photographs of people of St. Kilda, by Capt. F.W.L. Thomas, 1860.

329

4 Letters regarding fort on Castle Law, Abernethy, Perthshire, 1 sheet with drawings of objects, by Alexander Mackie,1898. See P., xxxiii.13

330

Drawings of the battlefield of Degsastan at Dawston Burn, of ruins of chapel there, Roxburghshire, nos. 79, 243 (7), and of alleged Roman camp over Caddroun Linn, with letter of C.B.Balfour, 1875, 1885.8 loose sheets.

336

Letter describing tomb at Fetteresso, by John Stuart, 1822. See Arch.Scot., ii.462.

337

Photographs of sculptured stones in Angus and Kincardineshire, one on Caskie Ben, Inverurie, and another, by O.G.S. Crawford, with list, 1939.49 photographs in total. Nos 1 –44 photos taken by Crawford (2 copies of 36 & 37) and 3 other photos

340

Photographs of miscellaneous Roman objects, some of them from England and Germany, and other objects, probably collected by James Curle.

350

Miscellaneous drawings of Scottish and other antiquities, 1864-98.  They include:

(1)        location of this drawing unknown

(2)        1  sheet with 2 sketches of urns; 1  urn found in cists found at  Carbrach             1862, & the other a sketch of an urn in the possession of Mr Taylor,             Lesmurdie

(3)        plan of cist at Easterton, Roseisle

(4)        drawing of terraces on Culter Crags, from top of Snaip Hill

(5)        5 drawings on 3 cardboard mounts: (a)sculpture on stone near the             Panorama Rock, Ilkley;(b) 2 drawings of sculpture on stone near the             Panorama Rock, Ilkley; (c) sketch of sculptured stone on Addigham             Moor, near Ilkley & sketch of spindle whorls from Dr Schliemans Troy for             comparison

(6)        Sketch of a roman tile from Barnack, 1883

(7)        plan of area around Birrenswark Hill, 1898

(8)        sketches of Scandinavian brooches from a burial at Westerseat, Wick,             1840

(9)        sketch of Abernethy Tower and Fort, Ross June 1898

(10)      2 sheets: (a) sketch of incised stone from carin of Holm of             Daltallachan,H. Park May 1880. See Psas xiv,283(similar drawing); (b)             similar stone,H. Park Sep. 1879

(11)      sketch of incised stone by D small 1883

(12)      drawing of Ruthwell Cross

(13)      sketch of chapel on St Serf’s Island, Lochleven. Published in PSAS xvi,             159

(14)      photograph of ornamental sword

(15)      sketch of old Scots wooden panelling, 1881

(16)      3 sheets of card (a) – (c) all in PSAS xxxi – ornamental ?spoons/ ladles?

(17)      sketch of dagger

(18)      sketch of supposed site of huts of Culdee hermits

(19)       unidentified sketch

 

351

The cup-marked stones of North Uist and Benbecula, ‘ with photographs, by D.J. Lyford-Pike (Chalmers Jervise Prize essay). for 1931.

352

‘Essay on objects of prehistoric antiquity in the County of Angus, ‘ with photographs, by William Fenton, 1937 (Chalmers Jervise Prize essay).

353

The Romanno terraces; their origin and purpose,’ with photographs, drawings, and maps, by W.W.T. Hannah (Chalmers Jervise Prize essay for 1930). 13 unbound sheets A4

354

2 Photographs of the symbol-stone at Elgin. Original mounting

355

4 Photographs of cross at Barochan, Renfrewshire, ca. 1885 mounted on 2 pieces of card. Also a lose photo of slab from Meigle

357

7 Photographs and 1 sheet of drawings of ‘canoe’ from Piltalton, or Piltanton, Burn, Wigtownshire, 1945. Photos are loose

363

Drawings of cup-marked stone found near Lochore, Fife, with plan of site and letter of Edward Henderson, 1943.

378

Miscellaneous letters on antiquities, including many donations, addressed to the Society by various writers, 1857-84, n.d.  They are arranged in order of date, and run concurrently in the two volumes.  Some, which contain no information have not been indexed.          

(1)          a description of the oldest council books & other records in the session of the Town of Haddington, 1857

(2)           notice of a large collection of Fibulae and other silver ornaments and cairns discovered in the Parish of Sandwick in Orkney. G. Petrie 1858

(3)          description of find of bones from the parish of Chapel of Garioch in Aberdeenshire. March 1859

(4)          letter entitled “Walks in Annandale” , John Gardner, 1860

(5)          letter concerning find of gold nr. Coulter in Lanarkshire, 1859

(6)          analysis of Pig iron from the old furnaces at Poolswe. By Dr. A Mitchell. See PSAS iv, 72

(7)          description of recent finds of coins in Scotland by George Sim 1864

(8)          letter from Leut. Col. K. Erskine of Pittodrie See PSAS vi, 276

(9)          on cup and ring marked stones in Invernesshire and at Barahill, Tulloch and Mount Gerald(?)nr, Dingwall. Pages 1 –12 See PSAS vi. App 46-7

(10)        letter from Thomas Stevenson 1865  concerning proposal to obtain a map of Edinburgh and plans of different churchyards and cemeteries.

(11)        report on some ancient remains, 1866 from D. Henderson

(12)        note concerning find of a radical pike hid in 1819 found 1847

(13)        note on Charles Edward Stewart’s bagpipes, 1871

(14)        catalogue of glass pottery, bronze, stone & bone implements from Boness Cave

(15)        note on a burial place at Dounan, 1886

(16)        inventory of articles forming the collection of antiquities in the Mansion House of Castle Mainsm Lanarkshire very sooty

(17)        notice of the scene of the skirmish between the Scottish army under Sir Lesley v the English army under Cromwell on 29th aug 1650

(18)        note on an armada wreck and canon

(19)        letter concerning stone found in Broch of Koliness, Sanday, 1828

(20)        letter dated 1879

(21)        Note on axehead of iron found in Lethnott, Forfarshire

(37)      letter dated 29/9/1879

381

Drawings of the site on Traprain Law and objects from it. Published in P.S.A.S,  x1ix and following volumes.

18 cardboard sheets + 1 envelope with 5 loose drawings

382

62 Plates of James Drummond, Sculptured Monuments in Iona, etc.

All 260mm x 370mm

383

Original paintings of St. Fillan’s crosier and the casing, by G.R.

2 sheets

 384

Original paintings by James Drummond for the plates in Joseph Anderson, Ancient Scottish Weapons &c., with some plates of Drummond’s

385

Portfolio, apparently of James Drummond, containing drawings etc. Some bear notes of Andrew Jervise, 1861, n.d.

(i)         Photographs of pistols, maces, brooches, Mary of Guise’s spinning-            wheel, and a powder-horn.

(ii)        Drawings of St.Rule’s tower and chapel at St. Andrews, 1776, stone             coffin at Dalmeny, and hog-backed stone at Abercorn.

(iii)          Drawings (coloured and plain) and a few rubbings of objects, numbered

            1-48 (nos.11 and 28 missing), with a list of them dated 1860, followed by             14 unnumbered sketches.

The subjects include weapons and sporrans (paintings very like the plates in Ancient Scottish Weapons); prehistoric weapons and pottery; later ornaments, vessels, kists, locks, and keys; Mary of Guise’s spinning-wheel; and garments of John Marquess of Montrose.

 

The sheets below confusingly have 2 numbers on them. The number quoted below is that founding the top left hand corner and relates to list found in portfolio titled “plates given away Dec. 7th 1860” number 1 – 48

 

(1)        stone collars

(2)        highland musket

(3)        Montrose Reliquaries

(4)        Gloves

(5)        Jewelled spinning wheel

(6)        Silver chain and ornaments’

(7)        silver cup with rubbings

(8)        Silver cup details. Powder Horn

(9)        2 sporrans with details

(10)      purse mouth – Elgin

(11)      Charms – 6  (unlocated)

(12)      battle axe and Lochaber axe

(13)      Cambus Kenneth Coffer

(14)      Charles II Highland broadsword with details

(15)      Broadsword with details

(16)      Highland musket with details

(17)      Roman urns and

(18)      Roman urns

(19)      Roman urns and P

(20)      Roman urns

(21)      Roman urns and axehead

(22)      Locks

(23)      Stone balls and fragment of urn

(24)      Highland musket

(25)      Two handed sword

(26)      Pulpit hour glass, lock and key

(27)      Lochchaber Axe, flail, habbert head

(28)      Silver armlet pun and Roman pots

(29)      Black locks and old key

(30)      Battle axe and silver chain

(31)      Part of urn and bronze weapons

(32)      Arrow heads, axes

(33)      stone balls, hammer

(34)      details of highland musket

(35)      details of highland muskets

(36)      details of highland muskets

(37)      sketches of St Andrew’s Mace

(38)      sketches of Standee’s mace

(39)      wall piece

(40)      lock and key

(41)      keys

(42)      thumb screws, Lochaber Axe, Roman eagle

(43)      bronze armlets

(44)      brass implements found near Banff

(45)      two brooches

(46)      Moneymusk Reliquary (facings)

(47)      Kettle

 

404

Painting of cup-and-ring-marked stone at Tuam, Co. Galway.-

Rolled.131mm x 1030mm

413

Map of Tents Muir, Fife. 1550mm x 990mm

415

'A genealogical history in cartographic form pertaining to Galloway and its ancient division of Carrick,' compiled by J. Kevan MacDowall, 1938.                                                                                                                                                                    

Rolled. 665mm x c.2620mm

417

Facsimile of the National Covenant of 1638. Currently on display in museum

419

 Plan, sections, and description of a Roman redoubt in Joyden's Wood, near Bexley, by Col. O.E. Ruck, R.E., 1906.

426

Rubbing of slab of 1586 on house at Blankenburgh, Canton of Berne, by W. Forsyth, 1912.

430

1 Drawing and 2 pages of description of iron dagger from the Law, Urquhart, Moray, 1885.

Rolled. 560mm x 390mm

431

 Plan and description of oppidum (on 2 loose small sheets paper) in Cobham Park, Kent, by Col. O.E. Ruck, R.E., 1905. Rolled.  470mm x 580mm

438

Paintings of graves, ornaments, and other objects, probably Swiss, bearing the stamp of the Antiquarische Gesellschaft, Zurich, and some of them signed by T.T. or J.J. Neustuck, 1839-48. 14 sheets

444

Tracing of 25” O.S. map, showing sites of deposits of flint implements at Campbeltown. 1 large sheet + I much smaller piece. Rolled. 740mm x 1010mm.

445

Plan of earthwork on Windmill Hill, Wilts, by Alexander Keiller, 1925.Rolled.

449

Drawings of cruisie-suspenders. 2 sheets. Rolled. Large sheet 685mmx 715mm, smaller 335mm x 545mm

450

Copies of the paintings of the roof of the chapel of Falkland Palace, by John Kinross and Andrew W.Lyons

458

Plans od St. Blane’s churchyard, Bute, the church, earlier and later buildings, and drawings of gravestones and crosses, by Robert Weir

468

Plans, photographs, etc. of cottages and hypogea in the Outer Isles, by Capt. F.L.W. Thomas, R.N.; all published in P.S.A.S, vii.

471

471.     4 Photographs of tapestry in Inveresk Lodge, said to have come from Grandtully Castle in 1746.  See P.S.A.S, xxiii.1240 On cardboard mounting largest: 483mm x 358mm. Other 3 are 385mm x 368mm.

472

Portraits of Patrick Chalmers of Aldbar, David Laing, and others

473

Portfolio containing miscellaneous drawings.  The subjects include:

 

(1)        ceiling of the Queen's audience-chamber in Holyroodhouse ;

(2)        2 sheets: (a) engraving of “view of the old library as seem from the point             A looking North”; (b) 2 plans – one of the” college of Edinburgh as it will             appear when finished” and one of “the college of Edinburgh as it appears             at present”

(3)        St. Adrian's Chapel, Isle of May, 1868 already had some preventive             conservation work – kept in tissue envelope

(4)        St. Helen's Church, Aldcambus beginning to tear along the creases

(5)        Drawing of “section of Lake habitation”

(6)        several earth-houses (some depicted by A. Jervise), 1863, 1875; tear             from R hand edge

(7)        plan of’ Picts’ house upon the farm of Barns of Aislie, Forfarshire

(8)        plan of ‘Picts’ House NE of  the churchyard of Migrie, Aberdeenshire

(9)        2 sheets; (a) coloured plan of Pict’s House, Dec. 27th 1875, (b) ?             attached to drawings of the Picts House

(10)      coloured drawing of ?

(11)      drawing if Dumfermline Abbey stall

(12)      plan of Edinburgh Life Assurance Office no. 5, 18th April 1843 ie             Museum, George Street by William Burn, signed by David Laing,             Alexander Smellie, showing museum and library

(13)      coloured drawing of St. Govan’s Chapel, Pembroke, 1817

(14)      fort on the Barmekin of Echt, 1819

(15)      drawing of pillar monument surmounted by unicorn

(16)      tombs in Corstorphine Church 3 sheets

(17)      drawing of gold lunette

(18)      sculptured stones in Govan churchyard, ca. 1855; 3 sheets

(19)      sketch of inscription on Bishop Kennedy’s tomb *seems to be 2 portions             stuck together – upper is original faded, & suffering from foxing while             bottom section seems to be a more recent ‘restoration’ copy of the upper             section

(20)      pencil sketch of Pictish symbols on one side & human face on the other.

(21)      an unspecified cist

476

476.     Scrap-book containing drawings, almost all by Francis Grose, of objects             found in Scotland.  There are also views by David Allen (nos. 27, 46) and             John Clevely (no.12) and an eighteenth-century cartoon satirizing the             Scots (no.50).  Preceded by a list of contents.

Inserted loose at the end are Plates xxiii-xxx of Richard Gough's edition of

Camden's Britannia, 1st ed., vol.iii. 66 pages of original drawings in bound volumeNB 1 mounted watercolour stored separately in drawer

Other drawings are altogether in one volume; has been recently rebound.

479

Drawing of head of a stone cross mounted on card

480

 Address of the Society to the Archaeologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches on the occasion of the latter's centenary, with other matter relating to the celebrations, all printed, 1929.

6 loose sheets

481

 Drawing of the arms of the Smeitons of that Ilk and note on Maclagans descended from them. Mounted on card.

487

Portfolio of papers of George Petrie, almost all relating to Orkney, incomplete.

497

Cover containing coloured drawings:

 

•           Dun Mhic Uisneachan, Benderloch (no.1);

•           decorated powder-horns (no.2);

•           The Deskford boar's head (no.3); by Thomas Brown

•           the Torrs mask (nos. 4-6); by Thomas Brown

•           the Hepburn monument in Prestonpans churchyard, an Elphinstone                  armorial panel at Craig House, Midlothianm and the cross at             Prestonpans, by John W. Mason, 1879 (nos.7-9);

•           a Peruvian vase, by Robert B.AE. Macleod of Cadboll or Miss Ethel             G. Macleod, 1887 (no.10).

498

(i)         Coloured drawings of swords, guns, and targes, by Sir George Reid,                    1860-1. 2 sheets ( 35cm x 49cm)

(iii)       drawings of an iron cup from Boiden, nr the lower Bridge of Eroon & on             another sheet drawings of a helmet, and bronze spearhead from the old             channel of the Eroon

499

(i)         Sketch of urn and cist found in St. Andrews, Orkney, in 1850.

(ii)        Drawing of stone battle-axe.

(iii)       Drawing of urns from Tealing, Angus.

(iv)       Sketches of cairns at Clava, one signed by J.M. Joass, 1858.  Some are             published in P.S.A.S, iii, p11.vi-vii.

(v)        Plan of stone circles on Mauchrie Moor, Kilmory, Arran; published in             P.S.A.S, IV.499.

(vi)       Plan of stone circle on the hill of Fiddes, Udny.

(vii)      Drawing of stone in Alves churchyard, Moray.

(viii)     Drawings of the well and other antiquities at Burghead, and of stones in             Kinneddar churchyard, Drainie, 1860, n.d.

(ix)       Lithographs of fort at Aldbar, Angus.

(x)        Sketch of sea-coast signed 'Herbert Maxwell', probably Sir Herbet, Bart.,             of Monreith, 1885.

(xi)       Plans of the Catrail.  See P.S.A.S, iii.120.    

(xiii)     8 Miscellaneous engraved and printed views of Scottish subjects, 18th             and 19th centuries, arranged in alphabetical order.                                      - Stirling Castle                                                                                  

            - Church of the Carmelite Friars, South Queensferry                       

            - Cathedral and Episcopal Palace at Glasgow                                 

            - Trinity Hospital, Woman’s Ward. Taken down 1845                       

            - Lady Yester’s Church                                                                      

            - Old Bank Close, taken down 1835                                      

            - St. Giles’s Church                                                               

            - Craigiehall Bridge

(xiv)     Engravings of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, 1735, and of Stratflour Abbey,             Cardiganshire. Former is large (50.1 cm x 65.7cm), latter (14 cm x             22.4cm)

 

500

(i)         Squeeze of ogam inscription at Altyre, Moray, with a provisional

            epigraphic copy.7 sheets of squeeze + 1 paper sheet with epigraphic             copy

(ii)        Photograph of peita in the old church, Banff. Original mounting

(iii)       Drawing of piscina in Cavers House, by Capt. J.H. Anderson, 1904

(iv)       2 Photographs of stones at Doune Lodge from the Coillechat and Annet                  burns, Kilmadock; reproduced in P.S.A.S, xxxi.307-8.flimsy, unmounted.

(v)        4 Photographs of sculptured cross-slab at Dunfallandy, by Magnus             Jackson. Original mountings (45.6cm x 35.5cm)

(vi)       2 Photographs of Romanesque arch at Dunfermline. Original                Mountings (47 cm x 36.7 cm )

(vii)      2 Photographs of bell at FintrySee PSAS lxxxix, on 1 cardboard                 mount.

(viii)     5 Photographs of the Knowe of Lario, Rousay. Only 1 photograph is             mounted

(ix)       Painting of urn from Melsetter, Walls, by Miss A. Johnston of Coubister,             with 2 letters regarding this and other local antiquities, 1882.

(x)        Drawings of Roman finds from Mumrills; almost all reproduced in             P.S.A.S, 1xiii. 10 loose sheets

(xi)       2 Photographs of the Ruthwell Cross. On original mounting (mounting             36cm x 28 cm)

501

Rubbing of stone in earth-house at Ardross, Fife

504

Miscellaneous. 

Included are:-

(1)        Photographs of stones, all or some on the boundary of Balmerino and             Forgan parishes, Fife; of stones in Manor valley, 1942; and of a cave and             cist, unspecified (1).3 envelopes of photos: (a) 4 small photos (9cm x             6.5cm) (b) 7 small photos ; (c) 7 photos(15.3 cm x 14.7 cm)

(2)        List of ancient weapons, implements from Moss of Blair Drummond             between 1816 & 1840

(4)        Sketches of broch at Breckness

(5)        Sketches of broch at  Okstrow.

(6)        letter concerning find of bone from an urn. Part printed in PSAS iv, 429

(7)        Description of Cairnbaan, Rothesay, with plan and sections, by John             Mackinlay, 1858; the description published in P.S.A.S, iii.180.

(8)        Drawing ‘Pict’s house’ in Campsie Wood, Cargill.

(9)        Plan of ‘Pict’s House’ in Campsite Wood, Cargill

(10)      Account of forts on the Caterthun, Angus, by D.D. Black, with letter of             Matthew H. Bloxam, 1846 (10).

(11)      Plan of crannog on Loch Coille-a-Bharra, N. Knapdale, 1867; see             P.S.A.S, vii.322 (11-12).

(12)      Drawings of paddle found at above crannog

(13)      Drawing & plan (both on 1 sheet) of Costantines Cave at the Dane’s             Dyke

(14)      2 page account of cist at the Duim, Nairn, by T.W. Hoare, 1931, with             photograph and plan

(15)      Drawings of crosses in caves near Elie (15).

(16)      Sketches of sculpturings on kliber-stone, Fethaland, Nothmavine, by             George Cockburn, with drawings based on them, and plan of the Kaim of             Isbister, also by Cockburn; see P.S.A.S, xii.202 (16-19).

(17)      Drawing of Kilben Stone, Shetland

(18)      Drawings of sculpturings on steatite block & rocks at Feideland, Shetland

(19)      Plan of Kairn of Isbister

(20)      Note concerning fort in Finhaven

(21)      Letter dated 6 Nov. 1875 concerning Baking Stone, Longforgan See             PSAS xi,351

(22)      Drawing of above stone

(23)      “           “           “   “

(24)      “           “           “    “

(25)      Map entitled “ place where the bronze hoard was got” See PSAS xxv,             135 Braes of Gight

(30)      Sketch of broch, Howe of Hoxa, S. Ronaldsay, by R. Heddle.

(31)      Sketch of Iona, by William Daniell, R.A., 1815.

(32)      Drawing of urn & incense cup

(33)      Drawing of urn found in Drummond

(34)      Drawings of stone weapons from ‘Kist No. 10) from Aberdeen

(35)      Note on excavations behind Killiemore House, Kilfinichen, Mull, 1937 – 2             pages typed notes + small address card        

(36)      Letter on grave-slabs at Killinailean, Mull, with sketches, by Sir John             Batty Tuke, 1900, and 6 loose photographs of other grave-slabs there;             see P.S.A.S, xvii.346; 1x.127 (36).

(37)      Drawings of cross from Kirkibost and crosses and gravestones at             Kilmuir, N. Uist, by Mary F.U. Carmichael, 1870 6 drawings in total

(38)      Drawings of symbolic bronze crescent from the Laws, Monifieth, by C.             Roger, 1796, reproduced in P.S.A.S, xiv.269-70 

(39)      2 Drawings of gravestones on Lismore on 1 sheet, with a letter, by Mary             F.U. Carmichael, 1871 .

(40)      Drawing of cross-slab in Logie burial-ground, Liff

(41)      Drawing of cross at Pannycross, Kilfinichen, Mull (41).

(42)      Drawing of earth-house at Pirnie, Wemyss; see P.S.A.S, vii.532 (42).

(43)      Sketch of St. Kilda village, 1877 (43).

(44)      Drawing of objects from Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney,.

(45)      Drawing of objects from Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney

(46)      Plan and section of mound with cists at Teindside, Teviothead, with letter             of Lord Rosehill, 1867; see P.S.A.S, viii.135 (unlocated)

(47)      Drawing of canoe or trough from Council Island, a crannog in Loch Treig,             Inverness-shire, now in Fort William Museum, with letter of Sir John             Stirling Maxwell, Bart., 1930.

(48)      Etching of mantelpiece in the manse of the Canons of Unthank, Elgin, by             D. Alexander, 1839 .

(49)      Coloured drawings of prehistoric bronze and stone weapons etc., by             G.P. Harding, 1842 (49-50). (unlocated)

(50)      See above(unlocated)

(51)      Drawing of stone mould, by Lady John Scott.

(52)      Drawing of stone mould, Lady J Scott

(53)      List of rubbings of English brasses taken by Mrs. Henry Scott Alves and             presented to the Society by Archibald and John Inglis (53).

(54)      Plan and section of a circular structure near ‘St. Thomas Well’ .

(55)      Photograph(front view) of wooden figure from Kingsteignton, Devon             Original mounting

(56)      Photograph (side view) of wooden figure from Kingsteignton, Devon             Original Mounting

(57)      Drawing of bronze figure in the possession of Mrs Ross of Pitealnic,             Rosshire

511

'MSS. Notes concerning some books & authors' and other subjects, ca. 1699, inscribed to the Museum in the Earl of Buchan's handwriting 1781.

513

 Papers of A.J. Turner relating to Dalmeny Church; notes, drawings, photographs, etc.

515

Description of urns from High Torrs, Glenluce, plan of Bronze Age burial at Mid Torrs, and 2 drawings of urn from Knockman, Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, by the Rev. George Wilson.

517

Photograph and drawings of three wooden implements from Auchmaliddy, New Deer, with a letter of George Muirhead, 1895. 1 sheet.

522

Miscellaneous papers.  They include:-

(8) drawing of engraving from Burhead. See PSAS iv, pl xii

(9) – (13) Letter relating to a chambered cairn and tumuli on the Knowe of             Unstand. See no.10

(14) – (15) plans relating to a chambered cairn and tumuli on the Knowe of             Unstan, by R.S. Clouston, 1884; see P.S.A.S, xix.341 .both on very             flimsy bits of paper

(16)      Plan of broch at Balta, Unst, 1877 .

(17)      Plan of cairn and cist on the Hill of Migvie, Tarland, 1871 .

(18)      'Plan of site of old fire at Lochinch,' probably on the CRANNOG IN Loch             Inch Crindil, with section; see P.S.A.S, viii.388 .

(19)      drawing of a bronze sword found at Watermish, Skye. By Charles             Bedford

(20)      drawing of design found on urn found at Dalaruan, Campbelltown, not             associated with any cist.

(21) – (22) Plan and account of Teampull Michael, Kallin, N. Uist, by Alexander             A. Carmichael, 1868; see P.S.A.S, viii.276 .

(23)      Drawing of detail of enamelled gold finger-ring from Broughty Ferry, by             Alexander Hutcheson, 1884; see P.S.A.S, xix.156 .                         

(24)      Coloured drawing of grave stone from St Clement’s Church, Harris

(25)      Drawing of West pillar, S doorway of Duddingstone Church

(26)      Drawing of east window of Borthwick Church

(27)      Unknown

(28)      Plan of Kinloss Abbey, Morayshire

(29)      Plan of Kinloss Abbey

(30)      Drawings (3 sheets) of monuments in Corstorphine Church

(31)      Unknown

(32)      Unknown

(33)      Drawing of 'Earl Paul's Sword, in the possession of Mr. Trail', perhaps             that from Swandrow (Sweindrow), Rousay, described in P.S.A.S, x.563-4

(34).     Drawing of fireplace and niche in Mary of Guise's house, Edinburgh,             addressed to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe .

(35)      Unknown plan

(36)      Photograph of door at Castle Menzies Original mounting

(40)      Elevation of Netherbow

(41)      Similar elevation

(42)      Rubbing  of stone wall in Belford Road, September 1957

(43) – (44)  Plans for a covered way at the New Bridge, Edinburgh, by Richard             Cooper the younger, 1780  *foxing on both sheets

(45)      map of part of island of Cumbrae * long tears along the fold lines

(46) – (47) drawing of plate of the Church of Arbulhurt

(48)      drawing of a highland milestone from Doune

(49)      plan of cross showing the steps, 1862

(50)      photograph of canon of Muhammad II mounted on card

(51)      photograph of the back view of the above canon mounted on card

(52)      as above – view of muzzle mounted on card

(53)      as above, enlarged view mounted on card

(54)      drawing of jet?necklace

(55)      drawings: “ longitudinal section of Mound no I” & “ crop section of Mound              no II”

(56) - (58) 3 pastel drawings – 58 of “Standing stones in glen pastel rubs of             easily – precautionary measure taken by placing in separate transparent             envelope

(59)      Tracing of inscription. Very fragile & flimsy

(60)      Drawings of inscriptions – runes?

            Also included in package is a drawing  numbered 23 but not catalogued             as one of the above ( already have a number 23) On one side there is a             watercolour of a church ruin at Kilmore and on the other side is a             drawing of a cross from Kilbride, Argyllshire, dated Aug. 27th 1885

523

 Miscellaneous papers.  They include:-

(2)        Rubbing of stone disk from the broch at Jarlshof, 1883 (f.2).

(3)        Drawings of cross-slabs in Pentland churchyard, Midlothian; see              P.S.A.S, xiv.50 (ff.3-4).

(4)        See above

(5)        Drawing of mail links  by L Bagle

(6)        Drawing of ? by L Bagle

(7)        Drawings of tombstone dated 1645 in the grounds of Bruntsfield House,             1783; described in R.C.A.M., Edinburgh, p.234 (f.7).

(8)        Drawings of tombstones in the grounds of Castlecraig, Kirkurd (ff.8-9).

(9)        See above

(10)      Photograph of door from Hopetoun unmounted, v flimsy

(11)      Drawing of brooch. See PSAS xxxiii, 413

(12)      Photograph of grave monuments in Greyfriars Good condition – mounted             on cardboard

(13)      Drawing of part of buckle of brass ‘probably the one from Mull’ . See             PSAS xvii, 327-328

(14)      Drawing of two blue ornaments 'presented through Cosmo Innes,' 1863,             with a note dated Drum, 7 Sept., 1863 (f.14).

 

527-32

'Manuscript collections of Andrew Jervise,' consisting chiefly of copies of epitaphs, with relevant notes and letters of about the 1870's, mainly relating to family history.  A few original documents of the 17th century are included.  There are lists of contents and alphabetical indexes in all volumes and a complete index in the last.

 

527-9.  (MSS.80-2) Vol.-iii. Aberdeenshire.

 

530.     (MSS.83) Vol. iv.    Angus.

 

531.     (MSS.84) Vol. v.     Fife, with Alloa.

 

532.     (MSS.85) Vol. vi.    Banffshire, Moray, Inverness-shire and Northern counties, Perthshire, and various.

 

533

(MSS.86)  'Papers relative to the restoration of Mons Meg to the Castle, Edinburgh,' being correspondence of the Society of Antiquaries, the Board of Ordinance, etc., 1828-9.

 

534-6

(9:N/3562)  'Shetland historical collections' of James Thomas Irvine.  Plans and

drawings, letters, newspaper-cuttings, and large portions of printed books, relating to the antiquities and in some instances to the current affairs of Shetland, especially N. Yell and Unst.  The drawings are mostly of the 1850s and 1860s, especially 1863.

 

533.       Vol. Only a few drawings are included; also some Shetland airs.

 

534.       Vol.  Many plans and drawings, all of N. Yell and Unst.  List of contents at the beginning.

 

535.       Vol.iii.  Drawings of Lerwick and Scalloway; Shetland and Finnish airs (pp.318-24).

 

537

' Letters from A.Z.… with his manuscript additions to the collections relative to Orkney and Shetland,' viz. Letters to Alexander Smellie regarding his donations to the Society, 1806-30.

•      'MS. Additions to the collections relative to Orkney and Shetland by A.Z.,'        viz.  'Natural history, antiquities' (comments on Prof. Gordon, Pennant,        the Rev. George Low, and Dr. George Barry);

•      'Scottish history and description.  Additions and corrections' (on manners        and customs on Orkney and Shetland), 1806;

•      'Supplement to the Norwegian History' of Orkney ( with reference to        Pinkerton and Barry);

•      'Additions to Shetland', 1807 (Low, Sibbald, Buchanan);

•      'Volume for Shetland.  Further additions,' 1811 (includes Orkney; Sibbald).

•      Printed list of works presented by A.Z. to the Society from 1803 to 1830.

       He is identified with John Munro, Kirkwall and London, in 'Notes relating to        "A.Z.", 'in P.S.A.S, i.126.

 

NB between 537 & 538 here is a manuscript entitled “Collection Concerning Orkney: letters from A-Z 1800 –1820”

538

(8:N/3564.)  Notes and extracts by William Thomson McCulloch relating to the Maiden executions.  See P.S.A.S, vii.535

539

'Journal.  Tour thro' the North Isles and part of the Mainland of Orkney, 1778, ' by George Low, Minister of Harray and Birsay (31ff.)

It is followed by a translation of part of the Orcades of Torfaeus (208 pp.).

At the end are a draft by Low of a letter to Pennant, 1773, with a note by Dr.

T.S. Traill, and a letter of George Louttit, Birsay, giving an account of Low for Traill's information, 1833. 

All except Louttit's letter appears to be in Low's hand.

540-50

  Notebooks of George Petrie relating to Orkney antiquities, 1848-74, n.d.  They include some papers read to the Society and other institutions, and in general they do not seem to contain information that has not since been published.

 

540.     (MSS.1.)  'No.1'  'Notice of some of the aboriginal antiquities of Orkney'             ('Ancient buildings; Barrows … and graves; Miscellaneous antiquities             such as standing stones etc.'; a general account, illustrated by             descriptions of particular monuments.

 

541.     (MSS.35)  Miscellaneous notes, 1858-74, n.d., including some on             antiquities, words and superstitions, copies of records of the 17th and             18th centuries, and extracts from a journal of 1677-90.

 

542.     (MSS.16) 'No.4.' Papers giving general accounts and particular             descriptions of antiquities, 1848-67; letters of Petrie, Dryden, and             Anderson, 1872-3, n.d.  A list of contents has been made at the             beginning.

 

543.     (mss.18) 'No.5.'  Papers on general and particular antiquities, 1849, and             letters,1848.  List of contents at the beginning.

 

544.     (MSS.19) 'No.6.'  Copy of John Brand's Brief Description of Orkney, etc.,             1701.

 

545.     (MSS.20) 'No.7.'  'Paper on the traces which are found of the early             inhabitants of Orkney'.

 

546.     (MSS.27) ‘No.8.’  Notes, sketch-plans of monuments, and sketches of             objects, 1863-  6, n.d.  For ‘No.9.’  see below, 554.

 

547.     (MSS.23) ‘No.10.’  Notes and sketches of objects, 1869-74, n.d.

 

548.     (MSS.25) ‘No.11.’  Sketch-plans and sketches, 1870, n.d.

 

549.     (MSS.24) ‘No.13.’  Notes and sketches, 1862, n.d.

 

550.     (MSS.26) Numbered ‘7’ by Dryden.  Notes and sketches, 1861-3, n.d.

 

551

(MSS.17)  ‘Northern MSS.’  Copies of papers relating to witchcraft and other trials in Orkney (p.9); account of the New Year’s Song as sung in Sandy (p.62);

 Scandinavian buildings in Lady (p.72); and other Orkney subjects and poems from various sources.  Perhaps written out by George Petrie.

553

Catalogues of coins:  ‘Numismatum Romanorum aliorumque historia Romana celebrium... quotquot extant in musaeo Johannis C. Bethunii catalogus accuratus’; Catalogue of Ancient Coins, Roman, Egyptian, and Irish, Edinburgh, 1829 (printed);  ‘Tractatus de pecunia Scotia,’1773;  ‘ Numismata Romana’  (advertisement);  ‘Ancient coins and medals for sale,’ Edinburgh, 1829; and a list of Roman coins.

554

 (MSS.11)  Notebook ‘No.9’ of George Petrie, a continuation of 546 (No.8) above, with similar contents, 1866-9.

555-6

 (X.36.A-B.) Notebooks of Dr. T.S. Traill, chiefly containing copies of epitaphs and drawings of gravestones, with geneaological and other notes.

557

(X.48)  Minutes of the meeting at which the Society was founded and of subsequent meetings, with copies of relevant letters, partly in the hand of the Earl of Buchan, 1780-1.

558

(X.66)  ‘Ecclesiastical collections for Aberdeenshire, by James Logan, 1823,’  including accounts of Rathven and Maryculter; mostly published in Arch.Scot., iii.4.

559

 (X.97)  Visitors’ Book of the Museum, 1827-8.

560-2. 

Notebooks of Alexander Henry Rhind.

 

560.     (X.115)  Malta, 1855; Egypt, (?) 1855-6.

 

561.     (from X.114)  Teneriffe, (?) 1862. Unbound and needs better packaging

 

562.     (X.114)  The Nile (?) 1863.

 

563

‘A description of Zetland,’ 1733.

564

‘‘Blazons of the ensignes of Britain and armorial bearing of the Nobilitie of Scotland and England.’  A MS. in a hand very like that of Alexander Nisbet, describing the arms of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, and of Scottish families, about 1700.  It is illustrated partly by hand and partly by engravings, apparently cut from a book.  The work seems to have been left uncompleted, for the Scottish arms are followed by many engravings of English arms without MS. description.

565

(10865)  ‘A sermon preached at the swearing of the Solemn League and Covenant, in the North Parish Church of ....Edinburgh, by Mr.John Adamsone...Prymer of the Colledge therein.....1643’.  Apparently never published.

567

(MSS.1935-4.)  Account-book of the West Bow Militia Association, Edinburgh, showing deposits of members and expenditure, 1807-8., (?) 1811.

568

(MSS.1925.)  Burgess ticket of Dysart, in favour of Francis Grant, 1738; List of Members of the Wig Club, etc.,  1827 (printed)

569

 (X.42.)  Original Shetland documents, from the collection of Samuel Hibbert-Ware, 1577-1699, n.d.  Most of the letters are addressed to Laurence Sinclair, Baron of Brough, about estate affairs (scat and mail, deliveries of butter, ships, his tenants, etc.),  17th century.  The subjects include: 

•   tack of the lands of Strome, 1577 (no.1);

•   appointments and deprivations of vicars, 1580, 1592 (nos.2, 5);

•   the fight between ‘Dunkirkers’ and Dutchmen in Berssay Sound, 1640 (no.9);

•   a woman ordered to appear before the Presbytery, 1640 (no.3);

•   and local disorders, n.d. (no.4). 

At the beginning are copies of a contract of James Traill and others to help James Fea, Younger of Clestran, to capture the pirate Gow, 1725, and of a letter of James Paterson regarding  ‘Wilkie’s Knolls’ and an urn at Pierowall, Westray. All bound into one volume

570-2

Copies of MSS. in the Advocates’ Library.

 

570.     (MSS.70.)  ‘A description of the isles belonging to the Crowne of Scotlande’  (the Western Isles and St.Kilda), by Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.33.3.20).  See P.S.A.S,  xiv.437. ‘Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum,’  by Jo.Ben, 1529  (Adv.MS.33.3.30).  Aversion from another MS. is printed in Walter Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections  (S.H.S.), 1908, iii.302.  See P.S.A.S, 1xx.230.

 

571.     (MSS.71.)  ‘Description of the Occidental Isles of Scotland by Mr. Donald Monro’  (Adv.MS.31.2.6.)  Slightly different from the version printed in Macfarlane, iii.262.

 

572.     (From MSS.71).  ‘Vera Southerlandiae chronographica descriptio’ (Adv.MS.35.3.12.); printed in Macfarlane, ii.436. ‘Rossaei Sutherlandiae Comitum annales,’  probably Alexander Ross’s Latin summary of Sir Robert Gordon’s history of the Earls (see Sir William Fraser.  The Sutherland Book, 1892, vol. p.xix)

573

(MSS.75.)  ‘Fragments of perambulations in Kintyre in the summer of 1833,’ by William Dobie.  A journal, with drawings, describing the antiquities, traditions, and modern manners of the country, from the south to Skipness and Whitehouse.  Index at the end.

574

 (X.77.)  ‘A comparative and etymological table of the names of farms (or townlands) in Lewis and Harris’ and Islay, by Capt. F.W.L. Thomas, R.N

575-6

 (X.78 A-B) Robert Bruce Armstrong, The History of Liddesdale, etc., 1883 (printed), with letters, notes, sketches, and printed matter pasted in.

577

Miscellaneous material, chiefly early papers of the Society, Nos. iii, vii, and ix are in the hand of Alexander Macdonald, Keeper in the Register House

 

(i)      Account of the parish of Uphall, in the Earl of Buchan’s hand, 1781, a           paper read by him and published in Arch.Scot., i.139.  Incomplete.

(ii)     Copy of the Society’s Charter, 1783.

(iii)    ‘Essays and other papers communicated to the Society of Scottish           Antiquaries.’

(iv)    Early list of donations.

(v)     ‘Catalogue of Natural History’.

(vi)    Catalogue of books in the Society’s Library.  From the foliation, some           leaves seem to be missing.

(vii)  ‘Tracts &c. relative to the islands of Orkney and Shetland presented by           A.Z.’  For A.Z., see 537 above.

(viii)  Part of a list of books, mostly presented by A.Z.

(ix)   Part of a list of ‘Original documents on paper.’  See below, 595.

(x)    List of books missing from the Library.

(xi)   Notes of the aforesaid and other papers.

(xii)  Notes on Caisteal nan Gullean

(xiii) ‘Stow Kirk Session Records’ from 1643 to 1650, printed in the Border           Advertiser, 1860 (cuttings).

 

 

(xiv)  Letter regarding Richard Parker, the leader of the Mutiny of the Norse,          1874.also includes unnumbered notes:

          - ‘The Tale of Collonsay’

          - origins Parachials Scotiae

 

578

(MSS.103.)  ‘Antiquities,’ a volume, with some loose pages, from the papers of the Rev. George Wilson (453-7 above).  Notes on antiquities, arranged in parishes.  There is an index at the end.  The pagination runs 1-21, 293-536.

579

Volume containing early catalogues of the Society: books; ‘Sulphur casts of antique gems’;  ‘Pictures & engravings &c.’; ‘Maps & plans’.  At the end is a printed List of Books that are missing from the Library of the Antiquarian Society, 1819.

580

 Papers on flint implements found at Little Ferry, Golspie, and on flints in general, by Stevenson, 1886, n.d.

581-591

 581-91.           Collections of Capt. Robert Riddell of Glenriddell, 1786-92.

A set of volumes, incomplete, containing accounts of the history, families, and antiquities of Dumfriesshire and Galloway, with some material relating to the rest of Scotland.

Riddell takes his information largely from printed sources and the MS.  collections of Dr. Clapperton, Bishop Percy, John Goldie of Craigmuies, and others (some sources are given in 582, p.100), but many of his descriptions of particular antiquities are from his own observation.

Descriptions of buildings and objects, illustrated with engravings and sketches, are introduced in connexion with the various main subjects or are interspersed among them.

Some of the subjects-- but not all -- in each volume, are indicated below.  Some of the volumes contain lists of their contents, and there are lists covering all previous volumes in 587.

For accounts of the history and contents of the volumes, see P.S.A.S, vi.451, and below, 582, 591.

 

581.     (X.39 A.)  ‘Vol.’  ‘A collection of Scottish antiquities, selected by R.R. Vol.2d., 1786’:  accounts of Border and other Scottish families (pp.1, 22, 25).

‘Scottish antiquities, historical and genealogical, collected by Capt. Robert Riddell....1786’ (p.69): genealogies and antiquities of various parts of Scotland; copies of early documents; account of raids on the Western Border (p.270).

Lists of the contents of preceding sections on pp.67, 184, and 274, and of the whole volume, p.277.

 

582.     (X.39 B.)  ‘Vol. iii.’  ‘A collection of Scottish antiquities... Vol.3d., 1786’: accounts of English families and Cumbrian antiquities (p.2);  ‘A dissertation on the ancient fortresses and castles in Scotland,’ by Riddell (p.58).

‘Historical and genealogical collections.... 1786’ (p.173): ‘Icolmkill,’ by the Earl of Buchan, 1786 (p.187) (not the same as the paper in Arch. Scot., I).

Lists of contents on pp.101, 172, 267.

Inserted at the beginning are letters of R.E. Peach to Adam Sim of Coulter Mains, regarding the MSS., 1866.

 

583.     (X.39.C.)  'Vol. iv.'  Copies and facsimiles of charters, with notes.

 

584.     (X.39 D.)  'Vol. vi.'  '1788'  (title-page torn away).  'A catalogue of great and learned men born in Dumfries shire' (p.36);

 a history of Sweetheart (pp.7, 52), with a satirical  poem on William Copland of Colliston, who sold it for demolition (p.55);

the ballad,  'The Bedesman on Nithsdale' (p.56);

anecdotes of Prince Charles Edward (p.147);

English, Welsh, Irish, and Manx antiquities, including runes (p.199);

an account of sculptures stones and other primitive antiquities of Scotland (p.235).

List of the contents of preceding pages on p.155.

 

585.     (X.39 E.)  'Vol. vii.'  'An account of the ancient Lordship of Galloway …. To the year 1455' (p.1);

'A tour in Nithsdale, 1787, '  pts.i-iii (pp.59, 94, 203), illustrated with watercolours and engravings;

'An excursion by Dr Clapperton to Lough Urr, 1787' (p.248);

list of barons and lairds in Dumfresshire and Galloway (p.257);

and the ballads,  'The Bedesman on Nothsdale' and 'The Death of Lauch' (pp.264, 272).

NB: no number label on volume

 

586.     (X.39 F.)  ‘Vol. viii.’  ‘A collection on antiquities .... 1789’:

 the ballad of ‘Tom Line’ (p.106);

 ‘The Memoirs of Mr William Vetch’ (Veitch) (p.111), published from another MS. in  1825; 

‘A journal of a tour in Scotland in 1789 made by Captn. Grose and Captn. Riddell,’ with watercolours and engravings (p.131) (Friars’ Carse by Leadhills and Biggar to Edinburgh and home by Lauder, Melrose, Teviotdale, and Annan;

another through Ayrshire to Paisley and Hamilton);

 notes on Macbeth (p.262); 

‘Journal of an excursion made from Dumfries to Eden along with Francis Grose ....1790 (p.280) (to Peebles by Dryfesdale and Tweeddale).

List of contents on p.293.

NB no number label on volume

 

587.     (X.39 G.)  ‘Vol. ix.’  ‘A collection of Scottish antiquities ....1789.’  Engravings, with remarks: early fortifications (p.1);

castles and seats (p.10 a);

sculptured stones (p.25 A); 

religious houses (P.46);

picturesque scenes (p.61). 

Lists of illustrations of these several subjects in previous volumes are given on pp.8, 44, 57, 83.

Sketches of castles by Grose, 1789, with notes (p.90).

 

588.    

•           (X.39 H.)  ‘Vol. xi.’  Ballads, with notes:

•           Jock o’Milk (p.1);

•           Archie of Capeld (p.14);

•           Lord Maxwell’s Good-night (p.18); 

•           Sir Andrew Barton (p.20);

•           Fair Helen of Kirkconnel (pp.29, 46); 

•           Lads of Wamphray (p.34); 

•           Lochmaben Harper (pp.39, 42);

•           Fray of Soupart (p.55);

•           Border Lament of the Union (p.59);

•           Outlaw Murray (p.61);

•           Laidley Worm (p.71); 

•           McNaughton (p.78);

•           Young Bechin (p.80);

•           Young Tom Line (p.84).

•           ‘Facts relating to Locher River & Moss’  (p.123).

•           Robert Edgar’s ‘Introduction to the history....of Dumfries’ (p.140), with             addenda by Riddell (p.254)  (published from this MS. in 1915).

•           Engravings of buildings, with remarks (p.258).

            No number label on volume.

 

589.     (X.39 I.)  ‘Additions made to the Scottish part of Mr. Gough’s British Topography by Robert Riddell ....1791.’  The printed text of Gough, vol.ii, pp.555-752, interleaved, with MS. notes.

 

590.     (X.39 J.)  Heraldry.  Printed works of Sir George Mackenzie and Riddell’s  ‘Various pieces of antiquity communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London,’ 1791 (printed), followed by drawings of heraldic sculptures in Dumfriesshire and Galloway, accounts of the arms of families, etc.

 

591.     Papers found loose in the volumes.

History of the volumes and summary of their contents, by H.S. Gladstone.

Letter of A.G. Reid to Sir Herbert Maxwell regarding the MSS., 1895.

Note of two men charged with tirling buildings, 1712.

Engravings of Spedlins Tower, described as ‘Castle of the Cumins, Inverness-shire.’

Lists of small engravings etc.  pasted into 585-7.

Unbound

 

592-594

592-4.  Correspondence and papers of William Smellie, Secretary to the Society, and of his son and successor Alexander.  The letters, most of which are printed, with omissions and alterations, in Robert Kerr, Memoirs...of William Smellie,  1811, deal mainly with William’s writings and publishing enterprises, and there are a few about the Society.  There are many drafts of articles, prospectuses, etc.  They are bound in some disorder.

 

592.     (X.41 A).  Vol. i.  1761-1813, nd.

 

593.     (X.41 B).  Vol. ii.  1759-1810, n.d.

 

594.       (X.41 C).  Vol. iii. 1794-7, n.d.

 

See also FINDING LIST

 

https://libcat.nms.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/1/63/X/BLASTOFF?user_id=WEBSERVER

 

595

 Lists of MSS. Of the Society, in the hand of Alexander Macdonald, Keeper in the Register House:

 'Essays and other papers communicated to the Society' 'bound in 3 volumes';

 'Original documents on parchment';

 'Original documents on paper, bound in two volumes';

 'Copies of original documents, in one volume';

 'The Hawthornden M.S.S., bound in fifteen volumes';

 'Original documents & copies of original papers, not bound';

 'Maps and plans'.  For documents on paper, see above, 577 (ix).

596

 ‘Report on the state of the communications and other writings in the repositories of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,’ 1820. Unbound,

597

(X.4 V.)  ‘Catalogue of portraits of illustrious or learned Scots, compiled by the Earl of Buchan from authentic information....1781.’ Unbound,

598

 Catalogue’ of the collection of the prehistoric material in Elgin Museum, including some items of later date,’  by Miss A.S. Henshall, 1958. 2 copies of the 1958 typed catalogue + manuscript entitled “ Items in donation books not identified” + document entitled “ The Miss Young Bequest to Elgin Museum, 1969”.

599

Transcript of a conversation on weaving with John Houston, aged 78, weaver at Kilbarchan, notes taken by Miss A.S. Henshall in conversation with him, and a plan of a weaving-shop, Gateside, Kilbarchan, 1954

600-5

Account of watermills in the valley of the R. Eden, Fife, with photographs, plans, and diagrams, by Anders Jespersen, 1950.

 

600.     ‘Watermills on the River Eden,’ a general account of the work.

 

601.     ‘Watermills; a preliminary account of the development of the gearing ....in Western Europe.’

 

602-5.  ‘Eden, a busy river,’ a general history  and accounts of technique and topography (602), and particular descriptions of all mills, following the river downstream (603-5).

607

(MSS.6.)  ‘Inventory late Adam Sim, Esq., Coulter Mains,’ 1868.

608

(1954-551)  ‘Swords in the collection of Herbert S. Pullar, Dunbarnie Cottage, Bridge of Earn’ (photographs).

609

Material regarding tartans, chiefly based on information supplied by William Wilson and Son, tartan-manufacturers, Bannockburn. (1952-917)  Lecture on clan tartans, by Pittendrigh Macgillivray, R.S.A., with information given by William Wilson and correspondence, 1906-19

611

(1952-914)  ‘Tartans of the Highland clans and regiments, also personal and family tartans.  Extracts from four manuscript books containing the written patterns of old hard tartans etc., as woven by William Wilson & Son....made by Pittendrigh Macgillvary, 1907’ (typed).

612-13

(1952-915, 916)  ‘Tartans.  Book No.3’ and ‘No.4’, containing extracts from the Wilson pattern-books, written in holograph by P. Macgillivary, with indexes.

614

Scrap-book containing drawings of antiquities, chiefly sculptured (symbol-stones, cross-slabs, etc.), 1780-1848, n.d.  Several are reproduced in Arch. Scot., mostly in vol. ii.

615

Collection relating to masons’ marks, compiled by William Ingram.

618

(MSS.107).  Letters to John Lindsay, numismatist, Cork: (a)  by James Carruthers, Belfast, on coins, 1839-59, n.d., with one of John Gough Nichols, 1849; (B) BY b. Nightingale, Cork, on coins and other antiquities, 1843-60, n.d.

619

(X.6.)  Papers of James Drummond, chiefly on West Highland monuments, with

journal-notes, 1869-70, and fragments.  Much of the material is published in P.S.A.S

620

(MSS. VIII.21.1.)  Notebook, said to be of William Young, cloth-merchant or tailor, Aberdeen, containing notes of business dealings and engagements and patterns of cloth, 1737, with a few notes of 1795-7.  Letters regarding Young, 1898, 1914, are inserted loose.

621

(MSS.1935-3)  History of a Covenanters’ flag of the 18th century presented to the Society by Lord Clyde, signed ‘James Clyde’, 1895; see P.S.A.S, 1XX.149

622

(X.10.)  Excerpts of the letters of the Rev. George Low and of Thomas Pennant to George Paton.  Partly used in Low’s Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland.

623

(X.82)  Notebook of Elizabeth Anne Maclaurin, daughter of Sir Walter Scott’s correspondent Peter, containing accounts of a clock of Archbishop Sharp and other objects which she intends to bequeath to the Society, and also of carved woodwork from Dunfermline Abbey, a cradle grate from Archbishop Sharp’s house, and Stuart royal portraits.  The part relating to the bequest is printed in P.S.A.S, xxxv.418.

 

624

(X.86)  ‘Masons’ marks from Marayshire &c.,’ by George Melvin.

625

(x.89)  ‘Notes on the church of Pitsligo,’  by William Troup, with photographs, a drawing, and a covering letter, 1862.

626

 (MSS.1934-4)  Account by an eyewitness of the discovery of the Roman bathhouse at Old Kilpatrick.

627

(MSS.1923-2)  Letters and notes relating to the Penicuik Collection of relics of Queen Mary, 1851, 1893, n.d., including a letter and a note of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, n.d.

628

Photographs:-

1.  Skull from cist at Tealing; see P.S.A.S, VIII.383.

2.  Prehistoric grave and skeleton, Thurso East, 1892.

3.  Stone with mark like footprint from Tob, St. Andrews, Orkney;  see P.S.A.S,      xv.190; Catalogue of the Museum 1892, IA, 11.

4.  Clack-Mannan, Clackmannan.

5.  Old church tower, Lasswade.

6.  Bronze censer or chafing-dish at Balvenie Castle; see P.S.A.S, xxix.59.

7.  Fetter-lock found near Berwick Castle.

8.  Socket-stone.

9.  Keystone with heraldic carving.

634

Drawings and notes on burial with bronze dagger at Law of Mauldslie, Carlike, Lanarkshire.  (See P.S.A.S VII, 440; VIII, 184)

635

Catalogue. Dunrobin Castle Museum

636

 Roll farm implements Suttie.

637

Sermon of John Welch (Welsh) Son-In-Law of John Knox. 1606

638

 Scottish sculptures stones recorded since E.C.M. was published (i.e. Early Christian Monuments) IN 2 BOUND VOLUMES NUMBERED 638(i) & 638 (ii).

(i) A – G (ii) H-Z)

639

Extract 1734 of document concerning St Fillan's Crozier, 1487

639a

Letters, photographs and other material concerning St Fillan's Crozier

640

Papers of James T. Irvine, 1844-97,   n.d.,mostly concerning antiquities

in Shetland.

 

 

641

Drawing of chambered cairns by J.G. Scott

 

 

 

Note:   The Listing above is for Society of Antiquaries of Scotland archives which are currently

held by The National Museum of Scotland Research Library

 

Other parts of the Society’s numbered manuscript collection are also held by

Historic Environment Scotland:

 

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/archives-and-collections/

 

 

 

Last updated: 06/2018