Monument record 1030 - ROSSINISH, BENBECULA

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.
A local informant reported this site and a rescue operation was carried out here in August (1964) on behalf of the 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.

I A Crawford, 1964e, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 33 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13386.

W.Ritchie, 1976, Rosinish (Benebecula) Archaeological Sites (Unpublished document). SWE41315.

I A Crawford, 1976/77, A Corballed Bronze Age Burial chamber & Beaker Evidence from Rossinish Machair (Article in serial). SWE41313.