Monument record MWE157365 - BENBECULA, OB SAILE

Canmore Event ID 1166669 (RECORDING/FIELD VISIT):
NF 76629 35289?NF 83628 39348 In association with the Islands of Stone Project (see above), UCAG were asked to make some preliminary searches for potential crannog sites to investigate during the team?s summer visit. Preliminary map and satellite searches

Canmore Event ID 1166636 (RECORDING/FIELD VISIT):
NF 8726 7470?NF 7463 1688 The 2022 field season for the Islands of Stone project set out to investigate a number of archaeological islets located in North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The primary aim of this fieldwork was to ident... (truncated in source dataset)... (truncated in source dataset)

The islet in an inter tidal loch. It is connected to the western shore of the loch via a largely obscured c. 39m causeway that extends from the northwest edge of the islet. The causeway is heavily sedimented and was only recognised upon inspection of the loch shore and the aerial imagery collected. The islet is nearly circular (c. 12m in diameter) and comprised of portable stones that rise c. 1.3m above the loch surface. Although the loch is filled with deep alluvial deposits, the artificial nature of the islet is clear. Sampling through deposits around the islet indicated c. 50cm of alluvium over a peat fragmented deposit, leading into archaeological material. Iron Age pottery and animal bone were recovered with a date range of 730 - 200 BC.
Blankshein.S et al (2022)

Stephanie Blankshein, Angela Gannon, Duncan Garrow, Fraser Sturt, 2022, UIST CRANNOG SURVEY (Monograph). SWE41375.

Historic Environment Scotland, 2024, Extract from HES Canmore database, 373291 (Machine readable data file). SWE41355.