Monument record 13564 - AISGERNIS, SOUTH UIST

NF72SW 26 7324 2382

NF 73 23 In Aisgernis (Askernish) township there is a line of low settlement mounds occupying a N-S sand ridge between the machair and the peatland. … Site 48 has produced much pottery from rabbit scrapes but the only datable find in Test Trench 10 was a complete rotary quernstone, indicating a date from the Middle Iron Age or later.

Parker Pearson 1998, 101-2

NF 7324 2382 Aisgernis. Settlement mound. Geophysics was carried out through the middle of site, revealing highly contrasting high and low readings. Several possible rectangular features were visible. Seven test pits were excavated to confirm these readings.
Trenches 1 to 6 uncovered considerable depths of midden deposits containing shell and bone, but no structural evidence. Only a few pottery sherds were discovered; one datable sherd is probably mid-Iron Age. Trench 7 located an area of turf walling overlying a stone base, enclosing a compact floor. This produced several clinker-type nails and a copper-alloy pin. The pin may date to around the 13th century, though its deposition may have been later. The pin has been deposited with Museum nan Eilean. (SEARCH Site 48)
Sponsors: Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Bournemouth and Southampton, King Alfred's College.
J A Raven 2003

REPORT DATE: 21/02/2005

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 1998, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41173.