Bunrannoch (OS NN663578 and OS NN666579), just east of the loch was also an area that attracted settlers, with its fertile land, again showing burial mounds (Seomar na Stainge OS NN674583). Some parts of the settlement were later modernised, with at least one longhouse being built on an earlier Bronze Age hut circle, some material possibly being recycled! These later homesteads have been dated at around 1250 AD, with cereals being grown and livestock kept, and a modest metal working industry shown from bloomery workings.
Archaeological investigations at Bunrannoch unearthed a hoard of bronze axes in the 1990s. Earlier, somewhere between 1820 and 1830, a bronze armlet was found. This form of Iron Age jewellery is distinctly Scottish, made for the aristocracy in the first and second centuries AD, and symbolic of power and prestige. Unwound, the whole length of the armlet is 80.6cms, and it weighs 510gms. These artefacts are all now in collections held by the National Museum of Scotland.
An 18th century dirk can also be seen in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
