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THEKINTYRE ANTIQUARIAN & NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINENo 1April 1977
THE MAGAZINEof The Kintyre Antiquarian & Natural History Society.President: A. I. B. Stewart, O.B.E., B.L.
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NUMBER ONE SPRING 1977CONTENTSForeword & Introduction
:Duncan Colville, Life PresidentA.I.B. Stewart, O.B.E., B.L., President............ 2
Editorial
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History of the Society
Hector L. MacKenzie, M.A........................... 4
The Jet Necklace
Frances Hood....................................... 6
Largie
 J.R. Maxwell-Macdonald, J.P........................ 7
The North Carolina Connection
Angus MacVicar, M.A................................ 9
Sika Deer in Kintyre
 T.W.G. Coulson, B.Sc, F.I.F.......................13
Excavations at Balloch Hillfort
E.J.Peltenburg, B.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. Scot..........16
Kintyre in Ontario
Efric Wotherspoon.................................18
Mary : A Hundred & Fifty Years Ago
Margaret MacDougall, M.A...........................22
William MacTaggart
Isabella Dunnett...................................24
EDITOR
: M. G. Hunter, M.A., B.Sc.
COVER
: J. Hex.
ARTICLES & LETTERS to
 
POSTAL REQUESTS for MEMBERSHIP
Mrs. M. G. Hunter, and copies of MAGAZINE toMerkland, Mr. A. McNair,Southend, Campbeltown. 47 Limecraigs, Campbeltown.
1Page 2F0REWORD
by Duncan Colville, Life President.As a founder member and the first Honorary Secretary of the original Kintyre AntiquarianSociety, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the publication of this magazine. I am sure itwill meet a long felt want, and I wish it every success in the future.
INTRODUCTION
by A. I. B. Stewart, President.In an age when scholarship is at a discount and change is regarded by many assynonymous with improvement, it seems to me that it becomes all the more important tolook over our shoulders at the lives and achievements of our ancestors, for only byunderstanding the past can we prepare for the future. This publication is an effort by the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society to givesome permanence to the work done by our members in recording our past history and thenatural features of our beautiful environment.
Page 3EDITORIAL
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For over half a century The Kintyre Antiquarian Society as it originally was has heldmeetings where talks on all aspects of life in Kintyre were given. In addition many of theselectures were published, but are now out of print. The Society's Library contains a largecollection of books and manuscripts relating to Kintyre. Recently a sub-committee of theSociety was formed to go into the question of making new and old material available to itsmembers and others. This Magazine, which it is hoped to publish twice a year, is the result.In this, our first number, we have included a variety of articles, touching on topics of interest to members. Much interest has always been shown by the descendants of Kintyreemigrants in this district, and perhaps this periodical will appeal to them also. In our limitedspace we have been unable to touch on all the many facets of the work of the Society, butwe hope to repair some of our omissions in succeeding Issues. Meantime perhaps some of our readers will be inspired to send contributions for other numbers. These could beanecdotes as well as full length articles. We aim to record the present before it becomespast and forgotten. The Editor thanks the members of the sub-committee and in particular the Chairman, whohas shared the editorial task; all who have contributed; the Editor of "The Kist" of TheNatural History & Archaeological Society of Mid Argyll, without whose help this Magazinewould not have got going; and the Editor of "The Glynns" of The Glens of Antrim HistoricalSociety for understanding and encouragement.And lastly, we thank our subscribers, and hope that they will bear with our omissions anderrors, and that they will enjoy reading our Magazine.
Page 4A SHORT HISTORY OF KINTYRE ANTIQUARIAN AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
Hector L. MacKenzieOn 14th June, 1921, the then Macdonald of Largie (father of the present Laird) and Sheriff J.MacMaster Campbell issued a circular letter convening a meeting in the Argyll Arms Hotelon 21st June, relative to the proposed formation of a society for the study of theArchaeology, History and Antiquities of Kintyre, and the preservation of the older records of the district. The gentlemen convened were Col. Charles Mactaggart, Col. George Rome, Dean of GuildMacArthur, ex-Provost James Lothian, Dr.J. P. Brown, Rev. C. McEachern, Rev. A. MacKenzie,Messrs. T. Galloway, Latimer Maclnnes, D. MacKinlay, and Duncan Colville. Of these foundermembers only one is still with us - the venerable Mr. Duncan Colville, Life President of ourSociety, now in his 93rd year. At the first A.G.M., two ladies, Miss Moira Campbell, onlyrecently deceased, and the late Mrs. Archd. Stewart, mother of our President, were ad-mitted to membership.Right away in its first year, the society inaugurated what was to become a regular feature,an annual outing to some place or places of archaeological Interest. The first was to Largieand Clachan districts, followed by lunch at the Temperance Inn at Clachan, and by tea atLargie Castle.Mr. Duncan Colville was appointed first Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. Largie was the firstPresident, but he died in his first year of office and was succeeded by Sheriff J. MacMasterCampbell, who remained President until his death in 1939.In April 1932, was admitted to membership the Rev. Father Webb, who, when he died in1974, bequeathed a generous legacy to the Society, as well as all his antiquarian, historicaland archaeological papers, which are currently being edited by Dr. Eric Cregeen.
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