A Viking-age (c AD800-C12th) domestic hall-house (long hall, aisled hall) on the tidal island of Brough of Birsay, off Mainland, Orkney.
A Viking-age (c AD800-C12th) domestic hall-house (long hall, aisled hall) on the tidal island of the Brough of Birsay, Orkney, looking ENE to the rest of the Norse settlement which includes a ruined Romanesque church. 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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Location: Brough of Birsay Norse Hall-house, Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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