Archaeology Notes

Event ID 647559

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB45NW 4 41862 58030.

(NB 4185 5803) Dun Bhuirg (NR)

OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 1st ed., (1852)

Dun Borve (NR) (In Ruins)

OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)

In 1781 Dun Bhuirgh was a heap of ruins. The dun was circular in plan, or drystone masonry, internal diameter 30ft and with walls 11ft thick. "There appear to have been seven bee-hive cells in the thickness of the walls" and also a large cell which was entered from the central area.

F W L Thomas 1890.

Dun Borve - broch: so much destroyed that the outline is only partly discernible. Nowhere is it more than 4ft high, and the chambers and openings in the walls are indistinct.

The plan, though generally circular, is slightly flattened at the SW, the internal diameter averages 31ft 6 ins, and the walls vary from 9ft to 10ft 6 ins in thickness. Evidence of at least six cells is visible, together with one or more galleries.

A short section of scarcement, about 20 ins above the present ground level, can be seen.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 28 June 1921.

Small sherds of kitchen-midden pottery found among shells and refuse in the wall-passage immediately above the scarcement level in Borve broch were presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by R B K Stevenson (HR 640-646).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1951.

Dun Borve, a broch, is as described and planned by the RCAHMS.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1969.