Rum, Samhnan Insir
Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S) (Bloodstone), Flake(S) (Bloodstone), Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Rum, Samhnan Insir
Classification Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S) (Bloodstone), Flake(S) (Bloodstone), Unidentified Pottery
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 10957
Site Number NG30SE 2
NGR NG 377 043
NGR Description NG c. 377 043
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10957
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG30SE 2 377 043.
(NG 377 043) A number of artefacts from BA to modern date were found lying on the surface of the sand in the bottom of a hollow scooped out of the machair by the wind. These included a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of blood- stone; six scrapers and three fabricators or 'strike-a- lights'; all of bloodstone; three scrapers of chert; a fabricator of flint; and waste flakes of bloodstone, chert, flint and quartz.
Lying on the same surface were three beads, of different types, numerous sherds of handmade pottery (undecorated), together with later material including two 18th century coins, fragments of iron and iron slag, lead shot, and bronze wire-headed pins. The site is adjacent to a small pre-clearance settlement.
G C David 1967
Find spot pointed out at NG 3776 043 by Mr P Wormell, Chief Warden of Rum Nature Reserve. Nothing of significance is visible on the ground. Finds made by a schoolboy in 1964.
Visited by OS (AA) 16 May 1972
Field Visit (May 1983)
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)
