Papa Westray, St Tredwell's Chapel
Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Papa Westray, St Tredwell's Chapel
Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 2865
Site Number HY45SE 24
NGR HY 496 508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Papa Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Note (1983)
near St Tredwell's Chapel area HY 496 508 HY 45 SE 24
Brand in 1683 described two standing stones (one of them holed), which evidently stood not far apart; close to the unperforated stone was a recumbent stone hollowed like a manger. All trace of these had been lost before the nineteenth century.
RCAHMS 1983.
(Brand 1701, 58; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 186, No. 543; OR 819).
