Borlum
Stone Row (Neolithic)-(Bronze Age)
Site Name Borlum
Classification Stone Row (Neolithic)-(Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 91620
Site Number NC96SE 94
NGR NC 977 634
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
NC96SE 94 977 634.
Approximately 52 small stones sat in about 8 fanshaped rows converge towards a small mound of stones at the narrow end of the fan and some 12.5m distant. Overall widths of rows 11m and 19m at narrow and wide ends of the fan respectively. Central alignment of rows approximately 318deg. true. Ground slopes upwards slightly towards the mound from the base of the rows. Length of rows 25.5m.
L J Myatt 1994.
Only one definite stone setting, 0.5m high, was noted during a pre-afforestation survey of Sandside Estate. There are no surrounding stones of any size and the site is crossed by an old boundary dyke.
C Dagg 13 October 1998; NMRS MS 1008/3, no.36
