Archaeology Notes

Event ID 836099

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO87SW 9 8391 7261 to 8390 7256.

(NO 8391 7261) Chapel (NR) (Site of)

(NO 8390 7256) Chapel Well (NR)

OS 6" map (1959)

The site of a chapel said to have been founded by David II in 1341. No remains exist but the site is well-known and the ruins still stood at the end of the 18th century. The Chapel Well is a spring.

Name Book 1864

The chapel does not appear in the Register of Ministers for 1567.

A Jervise 1882

Enclosure visible on AP's (OS 67/287/028-9, flown 1967).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

No trace of this chapel: the Chapel Well remains only as a slight seepage in a bank with virtually no flow.

Visited by OS (NKB) 21 December 1967

Oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 2001) has recorded the cropmarks of an L-shaped ditch on a promontory on which there is recorded a chapel site. The feature is also recorded on vertical aerial photographs (OS 67/287/028-9, flown 1967), and may be associated with two pits inside, and perhaps further linear cropmarks immediately to the NW.

Information from RCAHMS (SMDG) 7 January 2003