Monument record MHG6074 - Dun Borrafiach

NG26SW 2.09 23 63.

The shallow basin occupied by the Borrafiach Burn is covered in a patch-work of globular fields which extend from the broch. They ride up over the rubble from the broch and are composed of earth and stone and measure up to 2m in thickness and 0.75m in height. Both lazy-beds and plough ridges are visible within the fields and although there is no ridging outwith the fields to the E, the ridging is not closely bound by the field-banks; there are fields which may not have been cultivated and plough scars which bear little relationship to the banks. In the N (NG 2346 6373) a patch of flat-topped lazy-beds survive, having been truncated by later agriculture to the W. Across much of the rest of the area wide spaced furrows are evident, in some places removed by later ploughing which has created relatively smooth areas. The area to the W of the track to Unish may have been disturbed by recent agriculture, as only fragments of ridging and field-banks survive. Some sequence may be evident in the field-walls, but only to the N is there the unambiguous relationship of a sub-peat dyke underlying the earth and stone banks. This sub-peat dyke is submerged in c.0.5m of peat.
The larger part of the shallow basin of the Borrafiach Burn is enclosed by a 'head dyke' which connects with a series of banks which run through to Allt Bocaig and one which runs off along the peninsula to join banks to the S of Unish.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 28 June 1990.