Tiree, Ruaigh
Settlement (Period Unassigned), Hammerstone, Scraper (Tool), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint), Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Tiree, Ruaigh
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned), Hammerstone, Scraper (Tool), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint), Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 21488
Site Number NM04NE 12
NGR NM 065 476
NGR Description Centred NM 065 476
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21488
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Tiree
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM04NE 12 centred 065 476
NM 065 476. Settlement is suggested by the occurrence of pottery, some of it decorated, and implements of iron at a depth of 8 ft in the sandhills at Ruaigh. Two flints, one of them a thumb scraper, were also found in 1958.
Beveridge had previously found a flint and a hammer-stone as well as pottery in the same area. (E Beveridge 1903)
E R Cregeen 1958; E Beveridge 1903.
The only evidence for a settlement is a scatter of undecorated pottery in the dunes.
Visited by OS (D W R) 21 June 1972.
Sherds of pottery from the dunes at Ruaigh were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1973-4 by the RCAHMS. The accession numbers of artifacts from here, in the NMAS, are - HD 1927-32 and HR 1343-4.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1975; RCAHMS 1980.
