Archaeology Notes

Event ID 817354

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH66NE 13.01 68868 69298

The site of the church, stated by the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1874) to be the immediate predecessor of the 1832 church, is overlain by burial enclosures and a number of pre-1832 graves.

However, among the burial enclosures - six in all, five of which are unroofed - there is a ruined stetch of walling forming a side-wall (17.0m long) and an end-wall (6.5m long) of what could be the remains of an early church or chapel, orientated ENE by WSW. This walling, of which part of the N side of the long wall has been removed, varies between 0.6m and 1.0m in width, and is of uncoursed rubble with pinnings, bonded with shell mortar.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R B) 24 March 1966.

This churchyard holds the remains of casualties from the accidental loss of HMS Natal (NH76NE 8001).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 November 2002.