Yell, North Kirk Geo
Chapel (Medieval), Cross (Early Medieval)
Site Name Yell, North Kirk Geo
Classification Chapel (Medieval), Cross (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 1245
Site Number HU48SW 1
NGR HU 4498 8368
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1245
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Yell
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
North Kirk Geo 1, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.48m, W 0.38m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 4522 8883
Present location: in the burial ground at North Kirk Geo.
Evidence for discovery:
Present condition: there is damage to one side of the shaft.
Description
This is a cruciform stone with a wide shaft and a very wide and short upper arm, while the side-arms are also short.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 94 (mistakenly attributed to West Sandwick).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
North Kirk Geo 2, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.68m, W 0.52m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 4522 8883
Present location: in the burial ground at North Kirk Geo.
Evidence for discovery:
Present condition:
Description
This is a cruciform stone with a wide shaft and a wide and short upper arm, while the side-arms are also short.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 95 (mistakenly attributed to West Sandwick).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
North Kirk Geo 3, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.56m, W 0.44m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 4522 8883
Present location: in the burial ground at North Kirk Geo.
Evidence for discovery:
Present condition: good.
Description
This is a cruciform stone with a wide shaft and a wide and short upper arm, while the side-arms are also short.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 96 (mistakenly attributed to West Sandwick).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
West Sandwick 4, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.50m, W 0.34m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 4522 8883
Present location: in the burial ground at North Kirk Geo.
Evidence for discovery:
Present condition: very battered and one arm is missing.
Description
This was never a well-formed cruciform stone, but the damage has made worse its lack of definition. The surviving side-arm is very short and the upper arm was evidently similarly shrt.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 97 (mistakenly attributed to West Sandwick).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
HU48SW 1 4498 8368.
(HU 4498 8370) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).
The site of a chapel, which is thought to have fallen into disuse about the time of the Reformation, lies in the south part of the burial ground of West Yell, which is still in use.
Name Book 1878.
No trace; no local information regarding the chapel. Burial ground still used.
Visited by OS (NKB) 12th May 1969.
