Monument record 1031 - ROSSINISH, BENBECULA

NF85SE 5 873 537.

In 1964 Master Kenneth Maclean donated to the 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.

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.

I A G and A N Shepherd and Tuc, 1974, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 38-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13388.

W.Ritchie, 1976, Rosinish (Benebecula) Archaeological Sites (Unpublished document).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

I A G Shepherd and A N Tuckwell, 1976, Traces of Beaker-Period Cultivation at Rosinish (Article in serial). SWE41314.

I A G Shepherd, 1976a, Brit Archaeol Rep (Bibliographic reference). SWE6602.

I A G and A N Shepherd and Tuc, 1976a, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 35-6 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13389.

I A G and A N Shepherd and Tuc, 1977a, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 18 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13390.

D.Serjeantson, 1984, The Mammal, Bird and Fish Remains From Rosinish (Unpublished document). SWE41317.

T.B. BALLIN, 2000, Rosinish - The Lithic Assemblage (Unpublished document). SWE41316.