Island 481 - Bur Ness, South Voxter, Shetland

Bur Ness is a small rocky tidal island separated from the hamlet of South Voxter on Shetland Mainland at high tide by about 50 metres of seaweed covered rocks.  The island is round and about 50m in diameter.

I parked in the cemetery car park and then walked round the south side of the cemetery and it was an easy climb down onto the beach and across to the island.  Red campion and thrift were growing on Bur Ness, which is ungrazed, so the grass was very long.  A brough (fort?) is marked on the island on the 1880 25" scale Ordnance Survey map and, although no stones were visible, I could see the round outline of it with a dip in the middle.  However it is not listed on the Canmore National Record of the Historic Environment or on the modern Ordnance Survey map

Looking south west down the east coast of Shetland Mainland from Bur Ness

Looking north towards South Voxter Cemetery

Looking south east towards Mousa from Bur Ness

Looking north east towards South Voxter from Bur Ness

Looking south 

Bur Ness from South Voxter