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Sanday, Buryan

Chapel (medieval)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Buryan as Chapel (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Sanday, Buryan is associated with Saint Buryanus, a 6th-century Irish saint linked to early Christian activity in the Orkney Islands. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage and prayer, reflecting the spread of Christianity through the North Atlantic.

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