Braxside
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Braxside
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7385
Site Number NC96SE 60
NGR NC 9515 6343
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
NC96SE 60 9515 6343.
The ruins of a farm steading.
Name Book 1873.
A farmstead comprising three unroofed buildings, one of which is long building with three compartments, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet ix). Two unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1987).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 11 September 1995.
Braxside farmstead, comprising three or four buildings, enclosures and an area of cultivated ground lying between the Backside Burn and an unnamed tributary to the N, was noted during a pre-afforestation survey of Sandside Estate.
C Dagg 13 October 1998; NMRS MS 1008/3, no.11
