Skye, Dun Borve, Greshornish
Broch (Iron Age)
Site Name Skye, Dun Borve, Greshornish
Classification Broch (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 11173
Site Number NG35SW 3
NGR NG 3426 5257
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11173
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG35SW 3 3426 5257.
(NG 3426 5257) Dun Borve (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Dun Borve - listed by RCAHMS (1928) under Probable Brochs. On a rocky ridge on the eastern shore of Loch Greshornish, at Borve, near Edinbain, are the remains of a dun. On the flanks the ridge rises sharply about 50' above the loch to the W and about 20' above the land to the E, but at the extremities it tails away more gradually in rocky slopes and bluffs. The building has been entirely removed, leaving a shapeless mass of stone and soil 5' high in places, forming a ring about 53' in diameter externally. The shape and the dimensions of the remains suggest that this may have been a broch. Graham lists this as an uncertain broch.
(RCAHMS 1928; A Graham 1949).
Dun Borve is as described by RCAHMS. The plan and dimension, etc., suggest that it is almost certainly a broch.
Visited by OS (ASP) 1 May 1961.
Field Visit (24 May 1915)
Dun Borve, Edinbain.
On a rocky ridge on the eastern shore of Loch Greshornish, at Borve, near Edinbain, are the remains of a dun. On the flanks the ridge rises sharply about 50 feet above the loch onthe west and about 20 feet above the land to the east, but at the extremities it tails away more gradually in rocky slopes and bluffs. The building has been entirely removed, leaving a. shapeless mass of stone and soil5 feet high in places, forming a ring about 53 feet in diameter externally. The shape and the dimensions of the remains suggest that this may have been a broch.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 24 May 1915.
OS map: Skye xvi.
Publication Account (2007)
NG35 1 DUN BORVE 1
NG/3426 5257
Possible broch in Duirinish, Skye, standing on a rocky ridge on the east shore of Loch Greshornish. The building has been almost completely removed leaving a heap of stone about 1.53m (5 ft) high and 16.17m (53 ft) in diameter overall. The dimensions and the situation suggest that this is a broch.
Sources: 1. as card NG 35 SW 3: 2. RCAHMS 1928, 160-61, no. 515: 3. MacSween 1984-85, 45, no. 27: 4. Swanson (ms) 1985, 836 and plan.
E W MacKie 2007
