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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643908
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643908
HY22SW 27 2302 2410.
(HY 2302 2410) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins) : Burial Ground (NR)
O.S.6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The remains of a chapel, excavated by J. Storer Clouston, stand about 2 ft high. The walls are of rubble, apparently bonded with clay mortar, and the doorway is in the SW wall. No date can be allotted to the structure.
A very low, grass-covered mound, no doubt marking the limits of the burial-ground, surrounds the chapel from SW to NE and continues for a short distance on the NE as a line of laid stones. No other traces can be seen.
RCAHMS 1946.
The remains of a chapel and burial-ground, as described by the Commission. Oriented approximately NE. to SW. The building measures c.5.2 m. by c.3.8 m. internally, the walls being c.1.2 m. average width.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RL) 18 May 1967.
........probably an original foundation of the Norse period..small rectangular chapel measuring 17ft. by 12ft. internally with typical short proportions of the Celtic period, but the masonry with traces of mortar and the checked door jambs ..are unlikely to be earlier than the 12th century.
F T Wainwright (ed.) 1962.
No visible evidence.
OS revision October 1985.
