Monument record 5 - RONA

HW83SW 3.

Rectangular or oval mounds some now turf-covered, but originally stone-built, lie west of Rona village and outside the head-dyke. They vary from as little as 3' to a maximum of about 16' in length.
The smaller examples can have been little else than mere piles of stones probably representing field or pasture clearance, but the larger oval mounds may be the ruined remains of structures analogous to the 'plantie-crubs' of the Shetlands. Alternatively the larger mounds may be the remains of structures similar to the 'cleits' of St. Kilda. Darling has suggested that some of these mounds may have been stone bases on which to dry peat (F F Darling 1939) but this seems unlikely.
H C Nisbet and R A Gailey 1960.

F F Darling, 1939, A Naturalist on Rona, 37-8 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9301.

H C and R A Nisbet and Gailey, 1960, Archaeol J, 93-4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4509.

Chris Barrowman, 2006, Monument Warden's Report, and CD of digital images (Unpublished document). SWE41162.