It was late in the day when I arrived at the site. It had been a long drive. But the scenery of the Scottish Highlands along the way and excitement upon my arrival compensated for any tiredness. I staggered down a winding dirt track, eroded by generations of sheep, toward the sea, leaving the imposing dark hills behind me. I searched, I looked, I cursed. I could not find what I was looking for.
The Brother’s Point (Rubha nam Brathairean) site is dramatic, with a 1.5km walk-in across treeless farmland. Brother’s Point reveals itself as an exposed promontory and the most easterly point of the Isle of Skye’s geologically dramatic Trotternish Peninsula.
To the north lies Kilt Rock, with its dramatic cliff-top waterfall. Inland and to the west are the world-famous Quiraing (a series of plateaus, cliffs, and rocky protrusions) and the finger-like rock pinnacle that is the Old Man of Storr. To the south, Lealt, site of an abandoned diatomite works, where a multi-use rock formed of fossilized golden-brown algae was mined. Views to the east look across to the coastline and mountains of Wester Ross on the Scottish mainland.
