Tuesday, May 03, 2011
When the Bu Sands scheme was agreed in 1995 the OIC’s planning director said it was likely that St Lawrence church stood on an extensive site belonging to a Norse ‘magnate’. This goes well with my opinion that this ecclesiastical site began as a private chapel attached to a Viking hall [like ? the alleged St Peter’s Kirk near St Peter’s Pool in Toab] and explains why the kirk is at the edge of the broch or broch tower site.
Labels: Burray, Southtown, St Lawrence Church, Viking estate
