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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585344
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585344
HY21 3 BURRIAN 2 (HARRAY) ('Burrian, Loch of Harray')
HY/28881538
Very ruinous, probable broch in Sandwick,
situated on a low promontory on the west side of the Loch of Harray; it was apparently partly excavated before 1880 but no further information is available [6, 86]. Most of the east half has apparently been removed but a small segment of the curved outer wall face, with the “usual batter”, was noted on the south in 1928 [3].
Dimensions: the diameter was from 18.3- 19.8 m (60-65 ft.) and the wall 4.0 - 4.3 m (13-14 ft.) thick. There are faint suggestions of an outer wall or of outbuildings. A quern “of Pictish type” was recovered from the loch nearby [2].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 21 NE 17: 2. Fraser 1924, 25: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 680, 253-4: 4. Hedges et al. 1987, 86: 5. Clouston 1841, 54-5: 6. Fraser 1924, 25..
E W MacKie 2002
