Monument record 646 - BORNISH, SOUTH UIST

NF72NW 20 725 290.

Prominent knoll 35m diameter and 4m high in otherwise low flat machair: stonework is visible in crest of knoll and midden material occurs in plough furrows running over mound.
I Shepherd and A Shepherd 1978.

16: South Bornish, NF 7260 2902
c. 10m dia, c. 0.5m deep, surveyed June 1993, June 1994, pasture/deflation
scarce Iron Age pottery, iron fragment, shell and bone
immediately south of the township boundary fence between Bornish and Kildonan, but the sandhill on which it sits extends north of the fenceline. This is probably the site referred to in RCAHMS records as Bornish NF 725 290 structure/midden
Parker Pearson & Sharples

location corrected per Parker Pearson & Sharples, MML 4.12. 2007

NF 7260 2902 This very large mound was examined with two trenches, which indicated that preservation was the result of a single unimpressive occupation layer at the very top of the mound. This layer appears to be preserving a large mound of natural windblown sand. Finds from the occupation layer were rare and undatable.
Sharples 1998, 104

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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

I and A Shepherd and Shepherd, 1978b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 35 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12979.

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