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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 807091
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/807091
NR34NE 3 3691 4665
See also NR34NE 20.
NR 369 467 Dun/homestead: At the extreme south west end of Borrachill ridge, a detached outcrop crag has a heavy drystone wall barring the scaleable east side. The other three sides are sheer.
I D Shanks 1976.
At NC 3692 4666, on a knoll flanked by cliff on all sides but the east, is a dun measuring overall 22m east-west, by 12m. The only walling remains is at the accessible east end, surviving as a 16m long band of rubble spread from 2m to 2.5m broad; an outer face of abutting stones is visible in the south half, and the entrance, of which no details can be seen is centrally placed.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JM) 23 March 1979.
