Viking-age buildings E of the early C12th Romanesque church on the tidal island of Brough of Birsay, off Mainland, Orkney.

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Viking-age buildings E of the early C12th Romanesque church on the tidal island of the Brough of Birsay, Orkney. The Brough, at the NW of Mainland, was an important centre (both secular & ecclesiastical) for the Picts & later Norse settlers. The church remained a place of pilgrimage into the Middle Ages because the body of St Magnus (d 1116) was thought to have rested there before removal to Birsay & then Kirkwall.

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Size: 4961px × 3692px
Location: Brough of Birsay Church & Settlement, Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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