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Harris, Loch Langavat
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Causeway (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Harris, Loch Langavat
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Causeway (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Dun Borve 4
Canmore ID 10550
Site Number NG09SW 6
NGR NG 0434 9163
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10550
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG09SW 6 0432 9161.
(NG 0432 9161 ) Dun (OE) (Site of) Stepping Stones
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A small circular island (now covered with vegetation) which has been defended by a stone wall built on its waters edge. This is now so dilapidated that the building appears as a truncated cone about 50ft diameter and 7ft in height. A causeway (about 20 yards long and 5ft wide), submerged for about half of its length in the centre, connects the dun with the E shore of the loch.
RCAHMS 1928.
A small artificial island dun about 12.5m diameter and 2.0m high now covered with dense vegatation. The outer face of a tumbled wall is visible around the islet at the waters edge, more or less concentric within it are traces of another wall face with a diameter of about 9.5m. This latter is greatly obscured by tumble, and nowhere survives to more than 3 courses, as it cannot be ascertained whether it is the remains of a mural gallery or a stabilising wall. No internal features survive. The causeway is now submerged and barely passable.
Visited by OS (N K B) 4 July 1969.
Field Visit (4 June 1914)
Dun, Loch Langavat, South Harris.
About 400 yards from the extreme northern end of Loch Langavat, some 2 ¼ miles southeast of the sea-shore at Borvemore, and over 100 feet above sea level, is a small circular island noticeable amongst its heather covered neighbours by being covered with a luxuriant growth of greenery. It has been defended by a stone wall built on the water's edge, but this is now so much dilapidated that the building appears as a truncated cone about 50 feet in diameter and 7 feet in height. A causeway about 20 yards in length and 5 feet in breadth, submerged for about half its length in the centre, connects the dun with the eastern shore of the loch.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 4 June 1914.
OS map: Harris xvii.
Publication Account (2007)
NG09 2 DUN BORVE 4 (‘Loch Langavat’)
NG/0432 9161
This possible broch or dun in Harris is situated on a small circular island, in a loch, which is now covered with vegetation. The outer face of a stone wall at the water's edge can be traced, together with another wallface further in defining an enclosure about 9.5m in diameter. It is not possible to say whether this is the remains of a mural gallery or a median face. A causeway about 18.3m (20 yds) long and 1.5m (5 ft) wide joins the islet to the shore.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NG 09 SW 6: 2. RCAHMS 1928, 40, no. 124.
E W MacKie 2007
