Field Visit
Date May 1983
Event ID 1147169
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Samhnan Insir 1 NG 377 043 NG30SE 2
Artefacts ranging in date from prehistoric to modern have been found in a sandy hollow in the raised beach about 100m WNW of the shepherd's cottage at Samhnan Insir. The finds include a bloodstone barbed-and-tanged arrowhead (NMAS AD 2337), flakes of bloodstone and flint, and fragments of what is probably later prehistoric pottery. Another barbed-and-tanged arrowhead (NMAS AD 2347), together with several chips of bloodstone have been found in the sand-dunes at Samhnan lnsir.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(DES, 1967, 29; Clarke 1968, 187-8;PSAS, 103, 1970-1, 243, nos. 12-13)
