SummaryPollen–stratigraphic evidence is presented from three sites in Glen More on the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, which spans the time interval from the wastage of the Loch Lomond Advance glaciers to the virtual disappearance of woodland from the island in the Late Flandrian period. Radiocarbon dates suggest that the Isle of Mull was deglaciated by about 10000 B.P., and palynological evidence from the base of the profiles implies time‐transgressive deglacial retreat of the ice that occupied Glen More. Wastage of the last glaciers on the island was followed by the expansion of Empetrum heath and juniper scrub, the latter being widespread by about 9600 to 9500 B.p. At that time birch woodland may have been present in the lowlands and in sheltered localities along the coastal fringes, but the spread of Betula into the hills of central Mull appears to have occurred some 200 to 300 years later. Coryhis avellana became widely established around 8800 B.p. and was followed by mixed woodland genera including Quercus, Ulmus, Pinus and Alms. The relatively low representation of arboreal pollen in all three profiles suggests, however, that woodland was never widespread on Mull during the Flandrian due principally, it would seem, to exposure to strong westerly winds. The expansion of grassland and CaWuna‐dominated heaths during the Late Flandrian reflects a change to wetter climatic conditions, but may also be partly a consequence of anthropogenic activity, particularly in lowland areas.