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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Borve Stone Row Alternative Name: Clachan EriscoCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Skye Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Portree Nearest Village: Borve
Map Ref: NG452480 Landranger Map Number: 23
Latitude: 57.450542N Longitude: 6.248992W
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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RalphTuttle visited on 1st Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Uralsdaughter visited on 1st Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
bishop_pam visited on 5th May 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
asaxman visited on 12th Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
SumDoood visited on 2nd Mar 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 When is a row also an alignment? Or not?
SandyG visited on 29th Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 This stone row is situated next to the public highway and parking is available adjacent to it.
jeffrep visited on 25th May 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
markj99 visited on 9th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 There is a slight curve to the 3 stones in this row lending some weight to the argument that they were once part of a stone circle. The construction of a road through a stone circle could have occurred in the past.
Andy B kelpie have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3.63 Access: 5
Update October 2019: This single stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Borve, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan of the row showing the three upright stones and three recumbent ones, plus access information. The SRoGB notes: "The recumbent stones are probably secondary and represent later historic dumping". They also discuss the interpretation of the row, which is described as a stone circle by Canmore, but included as an alignment by Burl.
For the Canmore entry, see ID 11269 (Borve, Clachan Erisco), their 1961 entry describing this as the remains of a stone circle, with the recumbent stones having once formed part of the circle, adding: "One of these is built into a dyke about 20ft to the W of the standing stones and measures 6ft long, 2ft broad and 12ins thick; another lying within two yards of it is 4 1/2ft long, 1 1/2ft broad; and the third, on the opposite side of the road 50 yards to the E, is 5ft 2ins long, about 2ft in breadth and 8ins thick".
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