Field Visit
Date 21 May 1914
Event ID 1105406
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105406
Stone Circle (remains), Clachan Erisco, Borve.
At the crofting township of Borve, about 3¼ miles north-west of Portree, on the line of the low dyke on the south side of the accommodation road, are the remains of a stone circle called Clachan Erisco. There are three erect stones forming a very flat curve, the axis of the extreme stones running north-west and south-east. The stone to the east, an irregular six-sided prism, is 6 feet high and 6 ½ feet in girth at the ground; the central stone, 13 ¾ feet distant, is 5 ½ feet in height, 3 feet 2 inches in breadth, and 13 inches thick; while the third stone, 13½ feet farther on to the north-west, measures 3 ¼ feet in height, 2 feet 8 inches in width, and 15 inches in thickness; the two latter are set up radially. In the line of the curve formed by these three stones, at a distance of 21 feet 10 inches to the north-west, is a fourth stone 1½ feet high, 2 feet 4 inches broad, and 11 inches thick, which may have been one of the component parts of the ring of stones.
In the immediate neighbourhood are three prostrate monoliths, which possibly had formed part of the circle, as no other stones of their magnitude or appearance are to be found in the adjoining drystone dykes. One of these is built into a dyke about 20 feet to the west of the standing stones and measures 6 feet long, 2 feet broad, and 12 inches thick; another lying within 2 yards of it is 4 ½ feet long, 1½ feet broad; and the third, on the opposite side of the road 50 yards to the east, is 5 feet 2 inches long, 8 inches thick, 1 foot 4 inches broad for the greater part, but widening out to a breadth of 2 feet 4 inches.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 21 May 1914.
OS map: Skye xxiii.
