Oblique aerial view of the chapel and settlement at Brough of Birsay.

Description Oblique aerial view of the chapel and settlement at Brough of Birsay.

Date 1971

Collection John Dewar

Catalogue Number SC 1514299

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of O 3580 CN

Scope and Content Viking buildings, chapel and associated remains, Brough of Birsay, Orkney This site was inhabited in the 7th and 8th centuries by a thriving Pictish community. The Norsemen arrived in the 9th century and their existing buildings date from the 9th to the 12th century. In the 12th century a church and monastery were founded here. This aerial view of the buildings is dominated by the church with its semicircular apse. The three buildings to the right of it formed the monastery. The buildings to the east (bottom left) of the church appear to be Viking-age domestic hall-houses. The small Romanesque-style church, built of sandstone, has a square chancel and a semicircular apse at its east end. There are traces of a square tower at the west end. It is not known to which religious order the monastery belonged. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 6092/CN/6/3/4

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap