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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: BorlumCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Caithness Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Thurso Nearest Village: Reay
Map Ref: NC97706340
Latitude: 58.546608N Longitude: 3.759342W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Stone Row / Alignment in Caithness
Borlum Stone Row, now destroyed, is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Borlum, which includes a description, and links to other online resources for more information. SRoGB tells us the row "was made up of 52 small stones forming a multiple row/avenue 25.5 metres long. The site is at an altitude of 68 metres with a view out to sea, and the row would have been at an orientation of 138 degrees".
Described by Canmore in record Canmore ID 91620 , the formation sounds fascinating: "Approximately 52 small stones sat in about 8 fanshaped rows converge towards a small mound of stones at the narrow end of the fan and some 12.5m distant. Overall widths of rows 11m and 19m at narrow and wide ends of the fan respectively. Central alignment of rows approximately 318deg. true. Ground slopes upwards slightly towards the mound from the base of the rows." The record goes on to say that in 1994 only one definite stone setting was found during a pre-afforestation survey and adds the site is crossed by an old boundary dyke.
The row is also recorded in the Highland Historic HER; see MHG19431 (Stone Rows, Borlum).
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