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Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 1156226
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156226
‘above Knowe of Burristae’ HY 4308 4295 HY44SW 6
On. grassland by the shore to the W of the Knowe of Burristae (HY44SW 1); a low rounded hilltop is crowned by a ruined structure, oblong or oval on plan, measuring over 6m ENE-WSW by 4m. Its NE corner can be seen to be rounded and the wall is 1.2m thick, the faces on both sides having basal courses of upright slabs. There are several walls associated with the structure, and it appears to be a prehistoric house with associated field-system; it has been erroneously identified with the unlocated chapel of Kirbist.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981.
(RCAHMS Notebook, Orkney, No. 2, 6 July 1928; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 360, No. 1070; OR 722).
