Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641542

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP61SW 3 6357 1268

(HP 6357 1270) Chapel (NR)

(Remains of)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

The grass-grown remains of a strictly oriented oblong structure, 53' E-W by 28' N-S externally, within an enclosure. The walls, now less than 4' high, are about 6' thick and have apparently been built of very large stones.

Outside the east gable lies a badly weathered tombstone bearing the arms of (?) Mowat and Bruce.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.

As described.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 29th April 1969.