Dun site: Dun Beag Vaul
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Dun Beag Vaul
From Euan W. MacKie
NM046492. This is a roughly oval fort, a 1/4 mile from Dun Mor, whose outline is dictated by the shape of the rock knoll on which it stands. No structural features apart from low wall faces are visible. A trial trench was put into the edge of the flat summit to secure a sample of artefacts. A midden deposit of bones, many sherds and a complete bronze ring-headed pin were found. This deposit was just below the turf and lying on top of the ruined wall.
The sherds bear incised patterns and are comparable with wheelhouse material. This fort, together with the other Tiree sites hereafter described, was planned and the information will appear in an Appendix to the report on Dun Mor Vaul.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1963, pp. 20–21.
From Mr and Mrs E R Cregeen
DUN VAUL BEG
NM/046493. This dun, described by Beveridge, occupies the top of a stack on the N. coast of Tiree. Mr Wilson of Scarinish recovered whelk and limpet shells, animal bones, and two sherds of pottery from the sandy filling of the drystone wall. The pottery was of a dull, brownish, leathery appearance, soapy to the touch, and 6 mm. thick. One fragment was part of the base and side of a small vessel. If imported with the sandy filling and shells from the neighbouring raised beach, this pottery may not have come originally from the dun. Another sherd from this dun, found by a schoolchild, is of the harder reddish-brown ware more usual in the sandhills.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1958 pp. 10–12.
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 107.
From Euan W. MacKie
NM046492. This is a roughly oval fort, a 1/4 mile from Dun Mor, whose outline is dictated by the shape of the rock knoll on which it stands. No structural features apart from low wall faces are visible. A trial trench was put into the edge of the flat summit to secure a sample of artefacts. A midden deposit of bones, many sherds and a complete bronze ring-headed pin were found. This deposit was just below the turf and lying on top of the ruined wall.
The sherds bear incised patterns and are comparable with wheelhouse material. This fort, together with the other Tiree sites hereafter described, was planned and the information will appear in an Appendix to the report on Dun Mor Vaul.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1963, pp. 20–21.
From Mr and Mrs E R Cregeen
DUN VAUL BEG
NM/046493. This dun, described by Beveridge, occupies the top of a stack on the N. coast of Tiree. Mr Wilson of Scarinish recovered whelk and limpet shells, animal bones, and two sherds of pottery from the sandy filling of the drystone wall. The pottery was of a dull, brownish, leathery appearance, soapy to the touch, and 6 mm. thick. One fragment was part of the base and side of a small vessel. If imported with the sandy filling and shells from the neighbouring raised beach, this pottery may not have come originally from the dun. Another sherd from this dun, found by a schoolchild, is of the harder reddish-brown ware more usual in the sandhills.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1958 pp. 10–12.
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 107.
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