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SA4/1963/17 · 1882-1883
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

Note concerning purchase of 'collection of antiquities, &c., belonging to the museum at Lerwick of the Shetland Literary and Scientific Society', pp.13-20

Note concerning three polished stone celts found at the Glebe, Tingwall, p.20

John Alexander Smith, 'Notes on some stone implements, &c., from Shetland, now presented to the Museum', pp.291-299

Patrick Dudgeon, note concerning sandstone implement found in Unst, p.304

Gilbert Goudie, 'Notice of a fragment of an ogham-inscribed slab from Shetland', pp.306-311

SA4/1963/18 · 1883-1884
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

F.W.L. Thomas, 'What is a pennyland? or ancient valuation of land in the Scottish Isles', pp.253-285

Gilbert Goudie, 'Notice of a report, preserved in the Charter House of the City of Edinburgh, on the revenues of the parochial benefices of Shetland in the beginning of the seventeenth century', pp.291-305

Earl of Southesk, 'The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland', pp.180-206 includes descriptions of stones from Bressay, Lunnasting, St Ninian's Isle and Cunningsburgh, pp.195-206)

Margaret Craigie or Hoseason, through J.T. Irvine, note concerning oak carving from Muness Castle, Unst, p.251

Gilbert Goudie, notes concerning collection of sandstone implements from Braefield, Dunrossness, and water-wheel and gearing of Norse water-mill from Shetland, p.311

SA4/1963/19 · 1884-1885
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

William Traill, 'Notice of excavations at Stenabreck and Howmae, in North Ronaldsay, Orkney', pp.14-33

John J. Reid, 'Notice of two vessels of grey stoneware (bellarmines or greybeards), one found full of quicksilver in Shetland, the other at Eyemouth', pp.34-38

J.W. Cursiter, Notes concerning his collection of stone implements from Orkney and Shetland, pp.136-139

W.G.T. Watt, 'Notice of the discovery of two cists with urns of steatite, in the parish of Sandwick, Orkney', 160-161

Gilbert Goudie, 'Notice of unpublished rentals of the ancient lordship of Shetland, and of the earldom and bishopric of Orkney', pp.213-246

Robert Stewart Clouston, 'Notice of the excavation of a chambered cairn of the Stone Age, at Unstan, in the Loch of Stennis, Orkney', pp.341-351

James T. Irvine, 'Note of excavations and discoveries on the Tafts of Bayann, below Sellafirth, on Bastavoe, Yell, Shetland', pp.385-387

SA4/1963/20 · 1885-1886
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

Richard B. Mitchell, note concerning ten coloured beads found in Hillswick, p.8

F.W.L. Thomas, 'Ancient valuation of land in the west of Scotland: continuation of "What is a pennyland?"', pp.200-213

Gilbert Goudie, 'On the horizontal water mills of Shetland', pp.257-297

Norman Macpherson, 'Notice of communion cups from Duirnish, Skye, with notes on other sets of Scottish church plate, of which specimens were exhibited', pp.398-446 (with passage on church plate from Shetland, pp.429-432)

SA4/1963/21 · 1886-1887
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

J.T. Irvine, Notes on some prehistoric burial-places and standing stones in the island of Yell, Shetland', pp.215-219

Archibald Prentice, note concerning sandstone implement found in Walls, p.219

Gilbert Goudie, 'The Danish claims upon Orkney and Shetland', pp.236-251

James W. Cursiter, 'Notice of a canoe recently found in the Island of Stronsay, Orkney', pp.279-281

C.L. Acland, 'On some stone circles on the side of a hill at the east end of Quendale Bay, Shetland', pp.282-284

J.T. Irvine, notes concerning quern stone, three stone knives, sandstone implements, crusie-mould, steatite mould, p.288-289

James W. Cursiter, 'Notice of the bronze weapons of Orkney and Shetland, and of an Iron Age deposit found in a cist at Moan, Harray', pp.339-436

SA4/1963/22 · 1887-1888
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

Gilbert Goudie, 'The crusie, or ancient oil lamp of Scotland', p.70-78

James Noble, 'Notice of a stone, apparently a sinker, with incised figures of animals, from a tumulus at Bridge of Brogar, Stennis, Orkney', p.210

W.G.T. Watt, 'Notice of the discovery of a stone cist, with an Iron Age interment, at Skaill Bay', pp.283-285

SA4/1963/23 · 1888-1889
Part of Books and publications

Includes:

Note concerning basalt implement resembling spear head, found in Shetland, p.15

Notes concerning two discoid sandstone implements, two hammer stones, one "boiling stone", and oblong steatite sinkstone, found in Walls, p.19

Gilbert Goudie, 'Notice of some recent brough excavations in Shetland', pp.246-253

Alexander Christison, notes concerning stone axe and stone knife found in Shetland, p.274

James Shand, notes concerning charm stone and stone whorls found in Shetland, p.275

David Marshall, 'Notes of the connection of the earls of Morton and Dick of Braid and Craighouse; with the Earldom of Orkney and Lordship of Zetland, with rental, inventory, &c., 1653, from original documents in the charter room of Kinross House', pp.275-313

James W. Cursiter, 'Notes on a hoard of silver ornaments and coins, discovered in the island of Burray, Orkney', pp.318-322

W. Ivison Macadam, 'Notes on the analyses of additional samples of bog butter found in different parts of Scotland', pp.433-434