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Field Visit
Date August 1979
Event ID 1145897
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1145897
(Chapel of Scockness) HY 4527 3254 HY43SE 3
This site is in a recently disused graveyard; Marwick reports that it was resorted to by child-bearing women, a fact that suggests a dedication to Our Lady.
RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1979
(Name Book, Orkney, No. 16, p. 94; Marwick 1924, 19; OR 484)
