Note
Date 1980
Event ID 1136028
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1136028
Burrian, North Ronaldsay HY 7627 5138 HY75SE 3
Very impressive broch and outbuildings within multivallate earthworks which constitute a promontory fort. Site is of special historical interest for Pictish and Early Christian associations. Sea erosion vigorous and imminently devastating; broch wall stands on wavecut platform and is undercut by 0.4m for half of circumference, threatening collapse very soon.
RCAHMS 1980
(Traill 1890; plans in NMRS; Anderson 1881, 173-5; RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 45-7, No. 193; p. 51, No. 201; Stevenson 1955; Radford 1962; MacGregor 1974; OR 217)
