The John Bargrave Collection
Braid Hills
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Europe
No image has been attached.View Larger MapDescription of institution: Sibbald's reference to Braid Craigs is probably to the Braid Hills near Edinburgh. In an eighteenth-century "Account of Metals and Minerals in Scotland given by Colonell Borthwick": "At Braids-Craigs, there is a stone with blew and green veins found, which argues, there is copper there" (Mitchell and Clark, 17). Print Sources linked to this location: Mentioned - Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane