Monument record 643 - LOCH BORNISH, SOUTH UIST

NF72NW 18 723 295.

In the machair, some 400m W. of Loch Bornish, in an area of eroded sand at NF 723 2953, an enclosure and a small cairn have been exposed.
The enclosure is sub-rectangular on plan measuring 32.0m E-W by 26.0m transversely and is bounded by the footings of a rubble wall varying between 1.6 and 2.3m wide. The NE corner has been destroyed; there is a probable entrance at the SE corner. A Viking ring-headed bronze pin was found 10m E. of the entrance during fieldwork and has been presented to NMAS. About 85m SSE of this enclosure there are the fragmentary remains of a similar structure.
At NF 7239 2954 there is a small cairn measuring 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height. Two stones, set at right angles to each other in the top of the cairn, probably represent the remains of a cist. The eroded area is littered with concentrations of midden material, which overlie the large enclosure and cairn: bone, shell, deer antler, pottery and iron work were found by the field investigator.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 19 May 1965.

location corrected per aerial photos
18.5.2007 MML

11: South Bornish/Lower Bornish, NF 7235 2958
c. 7m dia, 0.5m deep, surveyed June 1993, June 1994, Pasture
no pottery, some metal slag, shell and bone
Parker Pearson & Sharples

37: South Bornish/Lower Bornish, NF 7238 2957
c. 6 m diameter, c 0.5m depth of deposits, surveyed June 1994. Pasture.
Scarce Iron Age pottery, bone and shell.
A small midden deposit close to or actually where the bronze Viking Age pin was found in 1964. It is recorded by RCAHMS as Loch Bornish NF 723 295. Enclosures; cairn; midden; bronze pin; pottery.

Parker Pearson & Sharples

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.

PSAS, 1964-6, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 334, No. 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8943.

T Fanning, 1983, Some aspects of the bronze ringed pin in Scotland, 337, No. 26 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2007.