Collection of six brass or bronze objects found on Balevullin machair, and a photocopied note.
Six brass or bronze objects found on Balevullin machair and examined by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Edinburgh at some time before 1953, and some identified as parts of brooches or pins, possibly Viking.
Dr Euan MacKie , archaeologist and leader of the excavation of the broch at Vaul, giving a talk there in July 2000.
Dr MacKie excavated Dun Mor Vaul in the 1960s. The broch measures 9.2 m in internal diameter with dry-stone walls up to 4.5 m thick and once probably 8 m high. Built around the middle of the 1st century AD, the absence of a permanent central hearth suggests it was used originally as a temporary refuge. The upper storeys of the broch were subsequently dismantled and a round-house, possibly an aisled wheel-house, constructed in the interior. It housed a flourishing community engaged in mixed farming, iron-working and bronze-casting. A number of worked bone, pottery, metal and worked stone artefacts were discovered during excavation and are now held in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Radiocarbon dating of organic material indicates that the site was inhabited from the late 6th or 5th century BC to the 2nd or 3rd century AD, though perhaps not continuously.
Printout of SCAPE database of coastal archaeological and other sites on Tiree.
List of coastal archaeological and other sites on Tiree with map reference and description.
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.
Hardback book `Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology` edited by Steven Mithen.
Project development, palaeoenvironmental studies and archaeological fieldwork on Islay.
Paperback book `Rhum: Mesolithic and later sites at Kinloch excavations 1984-86` by C. R. Wickham-Jones.
Account of the Mesolithic and later finds at Kinloch on Rhum.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.
Flint found at the small dun at Balevullin.
Flint found at the small dun at Balevullin, possibly used to polish bone artefacts.
Wooden case containing 60 Iron Age pottery shards.
(Documented on E00033) Wooden case (350 x 300 mm) containing 60 Iron Age pottery shards collected by George Holleyman from a sand-hill site at Balevullin during 1941-3. Two shards are accessioned separately with photos: 2000.91.12 & 2000.91.13
Horn spoon.
Horn spoon found by George Holleyman in a small rubbish tip at Balevullin between 1941-3.
Wooden case containing 66 pottery shards.
Wooden case (550 x 325 mm) containing 66 pottery shards collected by George Holleyman from a sand-hill site at Balevullin during 1941-3. Documented on E00033. Reviewed by Dr Euan MacKie in summer 2000 (see 2000.167). Items further identified by Dr Ewan Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in Glasgow, in July 2018: Norse ‘platter; early medieval; 16th-18th century.
