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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655095

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/655095

ND35SE 8 383 508.

There was a pre-Reformation (Auld 1868) chapel dedicated to St Ninian at the 'Heat of Wick'. This site has been variously located at North Head, near the Service Bridge (Beaton 1909), and at Head of Wick above the inlet of Papigoe (Scott 1918).

D Beaton 1909; A Auld 1868; A B Scott 1918; A MacKay 1914.

St Ninian's Church stood at the North Head (ND 383 508).

J Horne 1895.

No further information regarding this chapel was obtained during field investigation.

Visited by OS (W D J) 21 April 1962.

Not located.

C E Batey 1981.

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