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Benbecula, Rossinish
Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Inhumation(S) (Bronze Age), Midden(S) (Prehistoric), Pendant (Stone)(Bronze Age), Unidentified Pottery (Pottery)(Bronze Age) - (Iron Age)
Site Name Benbecula, Rossinish
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Inhumation(S) (Bronze Age), Midden(S) (Prehistoric), Pendant (Stone)(Bronze Age), Unidentified Pottery (Pottery)(Bronze Age) - (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Rosinish; Roisinis
Canmore ID 10196
Site Number NF85SE 4
NGR NF 8728 5380
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10196
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
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.
Note (2020)
Rosinish
This burial site in Western Isles was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2450 BC and 1501 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60174
CANMORE ID: 10196
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 3
Total no. grave goods: 3
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74532
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pendant
Materials used: Limestone
Current museum location: Unknown
Further details, the full project database and downloads of project publications can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206
An accessible visualisation of the database can be found here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/grave-goods/map/
