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Latitude: 58.4964 / 58°29'46"N
Longitude: -4.2816 / 4°16'53"W
OS Eastings: 267117
OS Northings: 958720
OS Grid: NC671587
Mapcode National: GBR H6S8.KH2
Mapcode Global: WH389.6PDZ
Entry Name: Borgie Bridge,homestead 250m E of
Scheduled Date: 6 February 1963
Last Amended: 20 November 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2134
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: homestead
Location: Farr
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Traditional County: Sutherland
This monument is a defended homestead of probable Iron Age date situated on the edge of a natural escarpment overlooking the Borgie valley. The monument consists of a semi-circular ditch averaging 8m wide and 2m deep from which material has gone to form a flat-topped mound about 18m in diameter and 2m high. The ditch stops short of the escarpment at both ends where there are slight counterscarps. A causeway crosses the ditch in the SE. Eccentrically placed on the top of the mound is an amophous stone walled circular structure, possibly a prehistoric round house. The area to be scheduled measures 60m E-W by 50m N-S, to include the defended homestead, internal stone structure and an area around in which traces of activities associated with the building and use of the homestead may survive, as shown in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric defensive construction and domestic life.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is RCAHMS number NC 65 NE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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