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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656574

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656574

NF85SE 4 8728 5380.

NF 873 537 Rossinish, Benbecula. Many early horizons have been recently revealed by wind erosion in a large isolated machair hillock. At a low level and endangered by the sea is a complex burial site of cremation pits, slab cist, and at least one beehive tomb. Skeletal material and pottery were found.

Mr Peter Morrison, Grimsay, reported this site and a rescue operation was carried out here in August (1964) on behalf of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

I A Crawford 1964.

The only remaining significant feature at this site is the remains of a small, almost circular, yard, about 2.5m in diameter by 0.3m high, at NF 8728 5380, around which there are numerous middens.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 June 1965.

No conclusions as yet, but provisional dating is Neolithic Beaker period.

Information in telecommunication from I A Crawford, School of Scottish Studies.

NF 8724 5381 Decorated and plain Iron Age pottery found 4th September 1999. Site identified during a desk-based coastal zone assessment by GUARD.

David Sneddon, 2006.

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