Field Visit
Date July 1970
Event ID 567565
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Brae Brough HY 1854 0311 HY10SE 1
This eyrie in the clouds is a mass of rock almost detached from the W side of Sui Fea, its own W face forming the vertical 325m precipice of St Johns Head. It is approached by crossing a narrow saddle and climbing a series of ledges. Some 3m below the top, a short length of drystone wall has been built across one of the ledges, and at the summit a bank 4m to 5m wide and 0.5m to 0.7m high runs along the land-facing edge and curves around the N side. This place enjoys an Arctic micro-climate and it is hard to imagine permanent habitation; it may have served as an occasional retreat, either defensive or spiritual.
RCAHMS 1989, visited July 1970.
(OR 1926).
