Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585480
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585480
HY31 4 BURRIAN 3 ('Burrian, Corrigall', ‘Burrian broch, Harray’)
HY/32351937
A probable broch inside a large mound which has suffered from extensive quarrying; a short section of the outer wall face can be seen on the NW, about 2.4 m (8 ft.) long and 1.4 m (4.5 ft.) high in six battered courses of dry stone masonry. One or two other blocks suggest an overall diameter of 16.2 m (53 ft.). There is a deep outer ditch 10.1 m (33 ft.) across surrounding the mound about 12.2 m (40 ft.) out from its base, with part of a possible outer embankment on the W. There are traces of outbuildings between broch mound and ditch.
Sources: 1. HY 31 NW 33: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 13, no. 12: Hedges et al. 1987, 70.
E W MacKie 2002
