Yell, Mid Yell, Reafirth Cemetery
Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Yell, Mid Yell, Reafirth Cemetery
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Canmore ID 1395
Site Number HU59SW 1
NGR HU 5145 9095
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1395
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Yell
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Reafirth 1, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.42m, W 0.18m
Stone type: micaceous sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5145 9095
Present location: in the burial ground at Reafirth.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1931.
Present condition: good.
Description
This is a tapering slab on which the side-arms have been indicated by little more than a rounded notch, leaving the upper arm very wide.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1713; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 98.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reafirth 2, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.18m
Stone type: micaceous sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5145 9095
Present location: in the burial ground at Reafirth.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1931.
Present condition:
Description
This was an unusually small cruciform stone, with short arms.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1713; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 99.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reafirth 3, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.42m, W 0.28m
Stone type: micaceous sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5145 9095
Present location: in the burial ground at Reafirth.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1931.
Present condition:
Description
This was a small cruciform stone with short arms.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1713; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 100.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reafirth 4, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.50m, W 0.36m
Stone type: micaceous sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5145 9095
Present location: in the burial ground at Reafirth.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1931.
Present condition:
Description
This was a cruciform stone with short and rounded arms.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1713; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 101.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
HU59SW 1 5145 9095.
(HU 5146 9096) Chapel (LB) (Site of)
Burial Ground (T.I.)
OS 6" map, Scotland, 2nd ed., (1900).
This ruined chapel is oblong in plan and lies E-W. Nothing is now left above ground except portions of the rubble-built west and north walls, evidently much repaired when two burial places of the 1690's were erected on the outside. Exact measurement is impossible, but it may be conjectured that the building has been some 50' long by 23' broad. The west doorway still survives to the top of the voussoirs, although covered with an acc- umulation of soil as far as the springers. Its arch- itectural details suggest a 17th. cent. date or later. A few short-armed crosses of micaceous sandstone are to be seen in the churchyard.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.
Chapel and gravestones in graveyard, as described by RCAHM. The burial ground is still in use.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (RL) 7th May 1969.
