Benbecula, Rossinish
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Benbecula, Rossinish
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rosinish; Roisinis
Canmore ID 10197
Site Number NF85SE 5
NGR NF 873 537
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10197
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF85SE 5 873 537
In 1964 Master Kenneth Maclean, Daliburgh, donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) potsherds of post-Roman type, an iron nail, and two small perforated pieces of bronze, from sand-dunes at Rossinish, Benbecula - approx. NF 870 538.
Information from NMAS letter of acknowledgement, 21 April 1964.
Master Maclean, the finder and donor, is at present in Edinburgh. No further information.
Visited by OS (E G C) 6 June 1965.
A wind-eroded, machair hillock has produced evidence, some of it structural, for beaker-period to medieval occupation and cultivation.
I A G Shepherd and A N Tuckwell 1974, 1976 and 1977.
Cultivation dated to 1900 BC +/- 75 and 1970 BC +/- 60.
I A G Shepherd 1979.
