Worked flints from near Vaul broch
Three worked flints found in some fresh drainage tailings at grid ref. 039 491 close to Vaul broch in 2013.
2013.86.1
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2013.53.2
Four pieces of bog iron ore from Vaul
Four pieces of bog iron ore from Vaul, 400m west of Dun Mòr Bhalla. Bog iron ore occurs naturally in wet ground associated with sand. It was refined and used by Iron Age settlers to make tools etc.
2013.15.1
Booklet `Songs amongst the Stones` 2000
Booklet about the archaeology of Tiree from middens and standing stones, to religions and lifestyle. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
2010.66.2
Postcard of the broch at Vaul
Colour photo postcard of Dun Mor Bhalla, the broch at Vaul, taken in the 1970s-1980s by Sue Anderson. Original in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3.
2010.16.2
Archive film from 1963 of (1) The Wheelhouse at Drimore, South Uist, (2) Dun Mor Vaul, Tiree
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about the Wheelhouse at Drimore on South Uist and Dun Mor Vaul on Tiree. Filmed in 1963, colour, silent. Made by the Hunterian Museum, the films feature (1) two men (presumably archaeologists) displaying photographs, line drawings, text, and pottery and bone fragments from the wheelhouse excavation, along with a model of the excavated site (the film does not contain footage of the actual wheelhouse), (2) footage of the excavation of the broch at Vaul by a team from the University of Glasgow, plus diagrams and pottery fragments.
2009.43.10
Booklet “Old Scatness – Broch and Iron Age Village, Shetland”
Guide book to the history, excavation and preservation of Old Scatness in Shetland, “perhaps the best preserved, excavated, Iron Age site in Britain – or indeed, the world.”
2008.25.1
Colour photograph of Glenda Franklin at the Hunterian Museum in 2006.
Glenda Franklin of Regina, Saskatchewan examining the Dun Mor Bhalla artefacts at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow in May 2006.
2008.25.2
Colour photograph of Nanette Mitchell, curator Dr Sally-Anne Coupar and Glenda Franklin at the Hunterian Museum in 2006.
Nanette Mitchell, curator Dr Sally-Anne Coupar and Glenda Franklin in the Hunterian Museum in May 2006 with artefacts from the broch at Vaul.
2008.25.3
Colour photograph of some pottery and tools from the broch at Vaul in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Some tools and reassembled pottery shards from the broch at Vaul in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, photographed in May 2006.
2008.25.5
Colour photograph of some pottery and tools from the broch at Vaul in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Close-up of decorated pottery shards, a re-assembled cup and three spindle whorls from the broch at Vaul, photographed in the Hunterian Museum in May 2006.
