Field notebook of J M Corrie (RCAHMS). Orkney and Shetland.

Description Field notebook of J M Corrie (RCAHMS). Orkney and Shetland.

Date 8/1930 to 7/1933

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number MS 36/115

Category Manuscripts

Scope and Content Field notes and sketches of monuments in Shetland in the parishes of Tingwall, Unst, Sandsting, Yell, Dunrossness, Nesting, including the islands of Trondra and Fetlar. At the back of the notebook there are notes in pencil on Midhowe broch in Rousay. 1 Trondra, The Cutts 1v Burwick 2 Trondra, Scarfataing 2v Nesbister cairn; Housegord burnt mound (sketch) (Inv no 1511) 3 Ungirsta 3v Bothen chapel (sketch of gravestone symbols) (Inv no 1538); Sand church Sandsting (Inv no 1392) (sketch) 4v Muckle Heog heel-shaped cairn, Unst (sketch) 5 at Lunda Wick kirk looking at tombstones for Sir G Macdonald, took photographs and rubbings. 6 sketch of broken implement from Trondra 7 indefinite structure near Mailand, Unst 7v site of burnt mound at Mailand (Inv no 1570) 8 Framgord gravestones 9 Uyea chapel and 17th-cent table tomb 10 Reafirth graveyard, Yell 11 steatite workings Fetlar 11v Exnaboe (with sketches) 14 30 stone discs picked up on Quendale Sands; Catpund steatite workings 14v Brough Head broch 15 Southvoe burnt mounds 16v Lunning standing stone (sketch)

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