Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648143

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB03SW 2 0480 3387.

(NB 0480 3387) Burial Ground (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1965)

An old churchyard, beside the highest point of which stood a church built in 1724. The site was occupied by the earlier church. 'Capail Mor' - Big Chapel' - the foundations of which are said to be traceable in the spring. To the south of it is the site of Capail Beag - 'Little Chapel' - possibly a still earlier church. 'Capail Mor' was a sanctuary.

(One of these, probably 'Capail Mor'), is presumably the pre-Reformation 'St Christopher's Chapel in Uge' noted by Martin).

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914; M Martin 1934.

Scheduled as Cnoc Eothail, Baille na Cille, burial ground and site of chapel.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 27 April 1992.

This chapel site was included in a research project to identify the chapel sites of Lewis and surrounding islands. The Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites survey recorded 37 such sites. A plane-table survey was made of this chapel site.

R Barrowman 2005