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Borve Castle
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2809
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2809 (2809)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farr
- National Grid reference
- NC 7251 6408
- Latitude
- 58.54616
- Longitude
- -4.19221
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1760); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1971); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1981); Earthwork Survey (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2112
- HER
- Highland HER MHG10768
- National record
- record NC 76 SW 2; monument 6415
- Wikidata
- Q31101297
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Mercer, R J (1981) Archaeological Field Survey in Northern Scotland, Vol II, 1980-81. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology Occasional Paper No. 7. Edinburgh
- Pococke, R (1887) Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760. (Kemp, D W, ed) Scottish History Society: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. HMSO: Edinburgh