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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 644734
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644734
HY32NW 12 3374 2870
See also HY32NW 16.
(HY 3374 2870) Peter's Kirk (NR) (In Ruins)
Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The remains of this church stand beside a burial ground within 15ft of the edge of a low sea-cliff. It apparently consisted of a rectangular nave, about 25 ft 9 ins by 22ft overall, and a chancel about 15ft 6 ins by 16ft 9 ins overall. The proportions suggest a date in the 13th century although the walls are much destroyed and have obviously been altered and added to.
On the edge of the cliff are slight traces of an indeterminate structure, probably a habitation to judge by the kitchen midden beside it, which may have furnished the stone for the church.
RCAHMS 1946.
Peter's Kirk and the disused burial ground are as described by the Commission. The traces of the structure in the edge of the cliff to the NE are unsurveyable.
Visited by OS (NKB) 4 June 1967.
