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Late medieval fields, Golf Course, Vaul
Turnbull’s 1768 map shows that much of the present day golf course at Vaul was cultivated. Although sand blow has covered the rectangular fields, the evidence of the turf dykes between the fields and the rigs can still be seen. The date is probably Late Medieval and post medieval. -
Elizabeth Gibb Collection
Evelyn Elizabeth Balfour Gibb (née Milne) (1914–2000) was the daughter of Lady Frances Balfour, herself the daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll. She married and lived in Sussex, but was a frequent visitor to the island, usually staying at The Lodge. She developed an interest in archaeology, and spent a lot of time in the 1970s and 80s roaming Tiree, particularly its Iron Age forts. She donated some material to the National Museum of Scotland, but this collection from 16 find spots was donated to An Iodhlann by her granddaughter Stephanie Clarke.
Dun, Caolas (which one is not described): 1983; 4 small sherds, 2 large pieces of slag.
Dun Mor Vaul: 13 thick sherds (2 rims, one of which is everted; 1 comb decoration), 1 possible lug.
Dunes between Brock and Ruaig Post Office: 11 small sherds.
Kirkapol: 1 sherd.
Dùn an t-Sìthein, Gott: 13 sherds (1 flat base).
Old Manse garden, Gott: 2 sherds.
Island House (possible location): hammer/smoothing stone (see photo).
Stream on boundary of Heylipol and Balinoe (NL 98686 42460): 9 sherds, 1 glazed pottery piece, 1 piece of slate, 1 of 3cm tapered nail, 1 hammer stone, whelk, limpet, scallop shells, animal bones and teeth, 4 bits of hard dark unidentified material.
Barradhu, Hynish: 1 piece of pumice, 2 small smoothing stones, 1 piece of slag, 1 limpet shell, 3 pieces of iron (possible cartspring).
Barradhu, Hynish (rock shelter): around 60 worked flints, 15 sherds (1 with comb decoration).
Dunes between Hynish Farm and Dùn nan Cleite: 1 worked flint (awl), 3 sherds, 1 3-cm iron cylinder with two notches (see photo).
Dùn na Cleite: 1972; 8 sherds (2 with everted rims and 1 with comb decoration), 1 worked flint, 3 animal teeth.
Dùn Hiader: 1972. 5 sherds (1 decorated, 1 with an indented, raised cordon), 1 smoothing stone, 1 hammerstone, 1 piece of iron 2 cm long, 1 piece of burnt bone.
Balephuil: 2 worked flints, 14 thick sherds, 1 small bone awl, 1 small pointed bone tool. ‘Sand dunes below Balephuil – just over the fence, not in the field you go down to the shore from, but the next along to the NW. 1982 May. Dr Brown knew this was an old settlement. Jean has a finger bone!’
Balephetrish: 1 hammerstone.
Sorisdale, Coll: 1 large fine sherd, 6 small sherds, 3 worked flints, 12 cowrie shells, 3 large pieces of bloom.
Included was a note [about possible rock art]: ‘I’m sure I found some [cup marks] on the non-seaward side of Dun Moor Vaul above the well/spring. I have a photograph somewhere. Quite small depressions in a circle about 12 of them. [?] “votive” holes in rock in Crete. 1994. EG’ -
Dun site: Dun Beag Vaul
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. -
Dun Mor Vaul excavation: audio recording
Former chemistry teacher Harry Kelly of Glasgow was recorded in April 2000 talking to Dr John Holliday about the time he spent in the early 1960s as a volunteer at the excavation of the Iron Age broch at Vaul.
When his tent was washed out by rain soon after his arrival, Harry was offered lodgings by Catriona MacKinnon of Rhum View in Vaul. Catriona was a mine of information about life on Tiree in the 1930s.
Much to Harry’s surprise, she had made her own pottery from local clay and dyed cloth with lichens. In this clip, Harry talks about the method she used to make pots. -
Cuttings about Dun Mor Vaul excavation
Three newspaper articles about the excavation of the Vaul broch, 1963-64
Three photocopied articles by archaeologist Dr Euan MacKie from `The Times` newpaper describing the excavation of Dun Mor Bhalla. -
Photograph of artefacts in Hunterian Museum from Dun Mor Vaul
Colour photograph of worked bone, metal and stone artefacts excavated from Dun Mor broch at Vaul in 1962-4, and held at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. See also K112-K117 -
Dun Mor Vaul: postcards
olour photo postcard of two children at Dùn Mòr Bhalla / Vaul broch in around 1980. -
Vaul enclosure
A roughly square enclosure containing a number of compartments. Oral tradition says that these were potato pits, but this is likely to have been an older structure. The date and function is unknown.
‘Mr and Mrs E R Cregeen
NM/046493. Inland less than 100 yds. from Dun Vaul Beg is an area approximately 23 yds. square, surrounded by a V- shaped ditch, 6 ft. across at the top. The inner face of the ditch is built up with small stones in places. The area within the ditch is elevated slightly, and contains a large number of round and oval depressions. The purpose and nature of these, and of the whole complex, is quite obscure.’ (Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1958, pp. 10–12).
See ‘Vaul Mound’ -
‘Human Remains from Domestic Contexts in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland’: skeletons from Balevullin and Vaul
‘Human Remains from Domestic Contexts in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland’
Ginn, V.
The paucity of formal burials outside the context of settlement
deposition led to a study of the deposition of human remains
on domestic settlements. A total of 61 sites were catalogued
and clear patterns emerged from the evidence including a bias
to the deposition in Atlantic roundhouses, seemingly equal
proportions of male and female remains, a wide variety of age
groups with some sites concentrating on juveniles, and a bias
to Orkney (in terms of the range of depositional practices,
the variety of settlement types, sites with remains of over 10
individuals, and sites with a high preponderance of juvenile
remains). Limited available radiocarbon evidence indicated
that deposition on domestic sites was most popular during
the first two centuries.
Tiree
NL 9590 4770 (NL94NE 6) Balevullin, Tiree Two crouched burials and fragments. Date and site type: U.
NM 0423 4927 (NM04NW 3) Dun Mor Vaul, Tiree Male adult torso in rubble; mandible located upside down under a stone with
several vertebra. Disarticulated remains of second adult male at base of rubble infill; bones clearly gathered some time after
death. Date: LIA/LIA+. Site type: BT
KEY
BT broch tower
CRH complex roundhouse
EH earth-house
RH roundhouse
WH wheelhouse
U unknown
EIA 700–300 BC
MIA 300 BC–AD 100
LIA AD 100–400
LIA/EP AD 400–800
LIA+ AD 400 onwards
(Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (2011), p. 208)