Stray find on backshore of machair, NE aspect and altitude of 0-10m OD. Now in National Museums (RMS Acc No: ADL 337)
For adjacent pre-clearance settlement, see NG30SE0004.
SMR card.

NG30SE 2 377 043.

(NG 377 043) A number of artefacts from BA to modern date were found lying on the surface of the sand in the bottom of a hollow scooped out of the machair by the wind. These included a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of bloodstone; six scrapers and three fabricators or 'strike-a-lights'; all of bloodstone; three scrapers of chert; a fabricator of flint; and waste flakes of bloodstone, chert, flint and quartz.
Lying on the same surface were three beads, of different types, numerous sherds of handmade pottery (undecorated), together with later material including two 18th century coins, fragments of iron and iron slag, lead shot, and bronze wire-headed pins. The site is adjacent to a small pre-clearance settlement.
G C David 1967

Find spot pointed out at NG 3776 043 by Mr P Wormell, Chief Warden of Rum Nature Reserve. Nothing of significance is visible on the ground. Finds made by a schoolboy in 1964.
Visited by OS (AA) 16 May 1972

Artefacts ranging in date from prehistoric to modern have been found in a sandy hollow in the raised beach about 100m WNW of the shepherd's cottage at Samhnan Insir. The finds include a bloodstone barbed-and-tanged arrowhead (NMAS AD 2337), flakes of bloodstone and flint, and fragments of what is probably later prehistoric pottery. Another barbed-and-tanged arrowhead (NMAS AD 2347), together with several chips of bloodstone have been found in the sand-dunes at Samhnan Insir.
G C David 1967; D V Clarke 1969; PSAS 1974; RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983.

David, G C, 1967, 'Rhum; Sgor Reidh, Harris Beach, Glen Shellesder, Guirdil, Loch Scresort, Samhnan Insir', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1967, p.27-9, 29 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG1420.

PSAS, 1969, 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 100 1967-8, p.201-5, 201, No.12 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG591.

Clarke, D V, 1969, 'Two jadeite axes and two arrowheads of Antrim porcellanite and Rhum bloodstone from Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 100 1967-8, p.185-8, 187-8 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG1772.

PSAS, 1974, 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 103 1970-1, p.242-8, 243, Nos.12-13 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG594.

RCAHMS, 1983, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Rhum, Lochaber District, Highland Region, 8, No.13 (Text/Report). SHG2674.

National Museums of Scotland, 2019, Highland Finds from the NMS Catalogue, AD 2337, AD 2347 (Dataset/Database File). SHG28278.