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Field Visit
Date July 1970
Event ID 1156628
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156628
Brough of Braebister HY 2130 0522 HY20NW 20
The narrow headland formed between deep geos at the mouth of Braebister Burn has its approach blocked by a steep, elongated bank 3.5m high and 3.5m broad, running across the isthmus. Occasional disconnected lengths of wall-face and some erect slabs are visible; the underlying structure may be of 'blockhouse' type. Immediately behind it, at the clifftop on the S side, is a limpet-shell midden, and the remaining area of the promontory summit is occupied by rectilinear slab-structures barely protruding above the turf.
RCAHMS 1989, visited July 1970.
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 109, No. 380; Lamb 1980, 34, 76; OR 1912).
