Photo of Norse Ruins on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney
Site
The Brough of Birsay was an important defensive site in Orkney from the earliest settlement. It was under Norse control from the ninth century, and most of the ruins on the Brough (ON Byrgisey, or 'Fort Island') date from this time. The causeway pictured here is only passable at low tide.
Thomas Kamphuis
The World-Tree Project
2010
Thomas Kamphuis
(c) Thomas Kamphuis CC NC BY
<a href="http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/653">http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/653</a>
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Still Image
http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/654
Scotland
Orkney
Viking Age
Photo of the Brough of Birsay, Orkney
Site
The Brough of Birsay was an important defensive site in Orkney from the earliest settlement. It was under Norse control from the ninth century, and most of the ruins on the Brough (ON Byrgisey, or 'Fort Island') date from this time. The causeway pictured here is only passable at low tide.
Thomas Kamphuis
The World-Tree Project
2010
Thomas Kamphuis
(c) Thomas Kamphuis. CC NC BY
jpg
Still Image
http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/652
Scotland
Orkney
Viking Age