Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 586029
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586029
HY74 4 POINT OF BURYAN ('Burrian, Lopness', 'Buryan')
HY/77244340
Probable broch in Lady parish on Sanday, standing on a promontory and close to the rocky shore. It was apparently explored in 1880 by J W Cursiter and Mr Barnett but even then most of the building had been washed away by the sea [4]. Some foundations remain on the north side which suggest that the overall diameter was 15.3 - 18.3 m (50-60 ft.) and that the wall was 3.97 m (13 ft.) thick; the curved inner face of the dry stone wall remains to a height of 91 cm (3 ft.) at one point.
Sources: 1. OS card HY 74 SE 2: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 166, no. 437. 3. Hedges et al. 1987, 118: 4. Cursiter 1923, 52: Lamb 1980, 15.
E W MacKie 2002
