Brough of Birsay, a small island off West Mainland, Orkney, with extensive remains of a Viking settlement, a twelfth century monastery, and an earlier Pictish settlement
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Brough of Birsay, a small island off West Mainland, Orkney, with extensive remains of a Viking settlement, a twelfth century monastery, and an earlier Pictish settlement
The Brough of Birsay is a small tidal island off the north-west tip of West Mainland, Orkney (UK) with extensive remains of a Viking settlement, plus a twelfth century church and monastery, and a Pictish settlement from the 7th and 8th centuries