Braxside
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kiln Barn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Braxside
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kiln Barn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 87030
Site Number NC96SE 84
NGR NC 9546 6383
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
NC96SE 84 9546 6383
A farmstead comprising four unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet ix). What may be five unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1987).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 11 September 1995.
This farmstead, situated to the W of the Brackside Burn, was noted during a pre-afforestation survey of Sandside Estate. It comprises five buildings and two enclosures on either side of a dyke. Of the four buildings on an E to W alignment, two have three compartments and a third has two chambers. The fifth building, measuring 5m from N to S, has two compartments and is possibly a kiln barn with the corn-drying kiln in the S chamber.
C Dagg 13 October 1998; NMRS MS 1008/3, no.17
