‘Ballaharra’
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: [Formerly green ring binder ‘Ballaharra’]
Text:
21.9.2002 F Lynch to PJD re. text and drawings
Figures list, draft
Photograph list
Excavations at Ballaharra, German, 1969-1983, by Sheila Cregeen – by D A Higgins and P J Davey, annotated draft final text including specialist reports
Excavations at Ballaharra, German, 1969-1983, by Sheila Cregeen – by D A Higgins with a discussion by P J Davey, first draft text report
Meaning of the name:
24.03.1971 (photo-copy) – Kenneth Jackson (Edinburgh) to Eric Cregeen (School of Scottish Studies) with commentary on the name Ballaharra
31.03.1971 (photo-copy) – Eric Cregeen to Sheila Cregeen with copy of Jackson letter
19.04.1971 (photo-copy) – Robert Thomson (Leeds) to Sheila Cregeen: commentary on Jackson ideas
Draft handwritten text (c1975) by Audrey Henshall entitled ‘Implications of the name Ballaharra (2 pages)
Plans/sections/drawings:
24.08.2009 F Lynch to PJD re. Ballaharra illustrations
Stratigraphy notes
7 A4 annotated plans and section drawings
13 copies of the original excavation drawings
23 publication figures
20.06.2001 – Fancies Lynch to PJD re. drawings
Draft figure list, annotated
Map of main features, 1971 – annotated
4 annotated publication draft figures
Reconstruction of possible N-S chamber section, hand drawn and labelled
23.05.2001 PJD to F Lynch re. plans and sections
Draft list of figures and photographs – annotated
23.03.2000 S White to PJD re. Section drawings
Section of the North Face, Ballaharra 1971 – A3
S White Section of the North Face, Ballaharra – A3
7 section drawings by S White – A4
Map of main features, 1971 – annotated
3 farther section drawing by S. White – A4
20.04.2000 S White to PJD re. reduced copies of the burial chamber
2 reduced section drawings by S White
7.12.1999 – S White to PJD re. first draft of Ballaharra section drawings
15 plans and section drawings by S. White annotated
Preliminary drawing list 26.6.1998
Preliminary drawing list 10.3.1999
24.11.1999 – D Higgins to PJD re. photos and missing figure
Flint drawings 1-25, 27 & 33 by S White – annotated
Pottery drawings 1-13 by S White
Specialist reports:
Beads:
Photograph of beads, Acc No. 1945.103
1.03.2000 JJW to PJD re. disc beads
Extract about jet beads from Megaw, B 1939 ‘Corn growing in Mann 4000 years ago. New evidence from the Meayll Circle’ in Journal of the Manx Museum Vol. IV: 59, pp. 119-121
References list
A brief report on the two jet beads from Ballaharra, German with notes on similar finds from the Isle of Man – by JJ Woodcock
Disc beads non-Manx parallels a report – by JJ Woodcock
Flint:
15.03.2002 – S McCartan to PJD re. unstratified and unmarked flint
Flint report by S McCartan and edited by F Lynch
Ballaharra flint drawings 1-40, final copies - by S White
Flint drawing
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/2/9
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