Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720159

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT74SE 4 7871 4411.

(NT 7871 4411) Chapel (NR) (site of)

OS 1:10,0000, (1972).

(NT 7871 4411) Chapel Tree (NAT) Supposed Site of Chapel (NR).

(NT 7875 4403) Grave Yard (NR) (Site of)

OS 6"map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1909).

Chapel Tree, a large ash tree standing on Chapel Knowe, is said to mark the site of a Roman Catholic chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, of which no vestiges now remain. The adjoining ground was used for burials, but is now cultivated; bones and coffins have occasionally been dug up. Name Book 1858; New Statistical Account (NSA, J Thomson) 1845; Fasti Eccles Scot, H Scott ed. et al 1917, J Robson 1896.

No traces remain of this chapel. All trace of the Chapel Tree has vanished and the site of the graveyard is now occupied by private houses.

Visited by OS(JD) 18 January 1955.

Nothing remains of this chapel and burial ground. The chapel is recorded in 1250 (I B Cowan 1967).

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.