Monument record 1373 - BORVEMORE, HARRIS

NG09SW 2 0202 9392.

(NG 0202 9394) Stone Circle (NR) (Site of)
(NG 0202 9392) Standing Stone (NR)
(NG 0201 9390) Human Remains found AD. 1864 (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

A standing stone (6' 7" high), which seems to have formed part of a stone circle, as four other pillar stones lie prostrate near it. These have all been removed from their original position, and their present arrangement gives no indication of the size of the circle.
Human remains are said to have been found in 1864.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

A standing stone as described by the RCAHMS. Only three prostrate 'pillar stones' can be seen nearby to the SSE, and these are smaller than the standing stone. There is no other evidence for a stone circle here.
At the spot marked 'Stone Circle (Site of)' on OS 6"map (1903), some 20.0m to the NNW, is a low, amorphous flat-topped mound, about 12.0m across, composed largely of loose stones, which is possibly the remains of a cairn, but more likely due to field clearance. The flat face of the standing stone faces WSW at a right angle to this mound. No finds have been made recently.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 July 1969.

Standing stone 186 x 97 x 17cm orientated NW/SE. 2 prostrate stones visible; one lies about 9m south of standing stone and is 126cm long, about 11m from the standing stone lies the second 230cm long and 7m E of the other prostrate stone.
Information from Van Hoek 1980.

S52: NG 02055 93901. Borve standing stone, c. 2.5m high, 1.5m rectangular stone, cobbles to northern side and larger stones resting against the southern side.
Hunter 2005

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 43, No. 136 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A Thom, 1967a, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 99, No. H 2/3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7507.

{H} A {W} Burl, 1976a, The Stone Circles of the British Isles, 357 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2801.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1977b, The Standing Stones of Callanish, 31 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13307.

John Hunter, 2005, Harris 2004/5 Illustrations and SMR (Digital archive). SWE41090.