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North Ronaldsay, Broch of Burrian
Orkney Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC2849
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2849 (2849)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cross And Burness
- National Grid reference
- HY 7627 5138
- Latitude
- 59.34820
- Longitude
- -2.41898
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1870); Excavation (1871); Earthwork Survey (1871); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Earthwork Survey (1928); Other (1949); Other (1970); Other (1999); Other (2000); Geophysical Survey (2005); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1427
- HER
- Orkney Islands 259534
- National record
- record HY 75 SE 3; monument 3679
- Wikidata
- Q31052817
Sources
References
- Heald, A (2005) 'Broch of Burrian, North Ronaldsay, Orkney (Cross & Burness parish), Iron Age comb; stone spindle whorl'. Disc Exc Scot 6 (2005), 97
- Hedges, J W (1987) Bu, Gurness and the brochs of Orkney, part 3: the brochs of Orkney. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Series 165. BAR: Oxford (p 126-7)
- MacKie, E W (2002) The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 342. BAR: Oxford
- MacGregor, A (1975) 'The Broch of Burrian, North Ronaldsay, Orkney'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 105 (1972-4), 63-118
- RCAHMS (1946) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, 3v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Sharman, P (2005) 'Broch of Burrian, North Ronaldsay, Orkney (Cross & Burness parish), evaluation; geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 97
- Traill, W (1880) 'Results of excavations at the broch of Burrian, North Ronaldsay, Orkney, during the summers of 1870-1871'. Archaeologia Scotica 5.2 (1880), 341-64