Laxfirth
Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Laxfirth
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Canmore ID 1137
Site Number HU45NE 20
NGR HU 4740 5969
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1137
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Nesting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU45NE 20 4740 5969.
HU 4739 5970) Chapel (LB) (Site of): Burial Ground (TI)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
The grass-covered foundations, 1' high, of what is believed to have been a pre-Reformation chapel, in the centre of its burial-ground which was still in occasional use in 1878.
Name Book 1878.
No trace of chapel. Burial ground still in use.
Visited by OS (NKB) 6 May 1968.
Field Visit (14 August 1930)
Chapel (Site), Laxfirth, North Nesting.
No further information.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 14 August 1930.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
