Deer management
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Gilmour, S. and Cook, M. (1998) Excavations at Dun Vulan: a reinterpretation of the reappraised Iron Age, Antiquity, 72(276), pp. 327–37.
‘McCormick has suggested red-deer management took place on Tiree as evidenced by the Dun Mor Vaul assemblage and on Bhaltos, West Lewis as shown at Cnip (McCormick 1991). Tiree is a small island yet both red and roe deer survive some 700 years of occupation on the Dun Mor Vaul site. The density of presumably contemporary Atlantic roundhouses in the Dun Mor Vaul area also raises interesting questions about land owner- ship and the methods utilised to retain economic stability.’
‘McCormick has suggested red-deer management took place on Tiree as evidenced by the Dun Mor Vaul assemblage and on Bhaltos, West Lewis as shown at Cnip (McCormick 1991). Tiree is a small island yet both red and roe deer survive some 700 years of occupation on the Dun Mor Vaul site. The density of presumably contemporary Atlantic roundhouses in the Dun Mor Vaul area also raises interesting questions about land owner- ship and the methods utilised to retain economic stability.’
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