Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641620

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP50SW 3 5056 0485.

(Area: HU 505 049) A cross-slab from Kirks (HU 5055 0486) is recorded by Irvine as being in the possession of Miss Henderson of Gloup in 1854, but in a further note he says that he made vain search for it at the house of Gloup in 1863.

RCAHMS 1946; J T Irvine nd.

A cancelled note in ONB (1878) states that the supposed site of a chapel lies a few yards SE of HP50SW 8, that the accompanying graveyard was in use until the end of the 18th century, and that a font lies 50 links SW of the chapel site.

Name Book 1878.

Site of church and graveyard pointed out by farmer in a cabbage field behind a row of cottages. Nothing significant to be seen and farmer said that nothing now turns up when field is ploughed (to depth of c. 9"), but bones have turned up in the past and loose stones have been struck at c. 1'.

A MacDonald, Manuscript notes.

No trace of a chapel, font, or cross-slab. Site indicated by Mr Moar (information from M W Moar, Gloup, Yell) at HP 5053 0487.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 8 May 1969.