The site of the former coastguard lookout has now been adapted for use as a visitor centre. It will take visitors through the history of the area from about 400AD to the present time. To adapt the lookout building which was built on the inner rampart of the fort, over 300 tons of rubble put there by the Picts some 1500 years ago was removed by hand.

Burghead visitor centre has now been awarded three star grading and mobility access certificate from Visit Scotland.

The centre is now closed until April 2010

 

Special exhibition this year was on Patrick Sellar as part of the Moray Connections project for the year of Homecoming 2009.

In 1814 he set about removing the crofters from his land in Sutherland in order to indulge his new found passion for sheep farming. His determination to carry out agricultural reforms regardless of the consequences, caused the largest upheaval of the population that the Highlands has ever seen. Was he a reformer or a reprobate? See what you think after you have read the evidence.

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures & Drawings © Burghead Headland Trust