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Borgie House

Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Borgie House

Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Olrig Glebe

Canmore ID 8384

Site Number ND16NE 12

NGR ND 1912 6710

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Olrig
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND16NE 12 1912 6710

(ND 1912 6709) Mound (NR)

OS 6" map, (1970)

Broch (supposed), Olrig Glebe: A stony mound, which probably contains a broch, is under cultivation and no sign of the structure is visible. The diameter over all is some 96ft and the elevation about 6ft (RCAHMS 1911). Classified as an uncertain broch (Graham 1949).

RCAHMS 1911; A Graham 1949

A grass-covered mound much reduced by cultivation and measuring 30.0m in diameter and 2.0m maximum height is almost certainly a cairn. A stone wall encroaches on the NW segment.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 February 1965

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (J B) 16 November 1981

'Broch' mound. Dimensions: 33 x 29m. Grass-covered mound 2m high.

R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995

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Publication Account (2007)

ND 16 10 OLRIG GLEBE (‘Borgie House’)

ND/1912 6710

Possible broch or cairn in Olrig, Caithness, consisting of a grass-covered, stony mound about 30.0m in diameter and much reduced by cultivation; no fragments of a structure are to be seen, and the site may be that of a cairn [1].

Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 16 NE 12: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 87-8, no. 322.

E W MacKie 2007

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