Archaeology Notes
Event ID 655277
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND28NE 2 2840 8821
The Chapel and graveyard walls appear to have been of drystone construction; only turf-covered foundations remain. According to Mr Nicholson, Mucklehouse, Longhope, human bones have been found in a level area some 30m W of the chapel, where there are several small low mounds. He believes that the chapel was dedicated to St John but this cannot be confirmed.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 17 June 1967.
ND 283 881 Chapel of Brims, ruinous.
Sponsors: Historic Scoland, Orkney Archaeological Trust.
G Wilson and H Moore 1997.
Scheduled as 'Chapel of Brims, Hoy... a low turf-covered bank forming a rectangular enclosure, aligned WNW-ESE, which is held to be the remains of a medieval chapel dedicated to St John. The chapel lies towards the western end of a second, larger rectanular enclosure, indicated by a much less complete bank; the larger enclosure possibly forming the precinct or graveyard wall. There are other less distinct surface features in the vicinity of the chapel; some may represent further enclosure or boundary walls while others appear to be the remains of buildings.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 9 January 2004.