Wester Skeld
Chapel (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Mill(S) (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Wester Skeld
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Mill(S) (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 190124
Site Number HU24SE 46
NGR HU 297 438
NGR Description Centred on HU 297 438
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/190124
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU24SE 46 centred 297 438
See also:
HU24SE 9 HU 2976 4383 Chapel
A township comprising twenty-two unroofed buildings, three of which lie beside an unnamed burn and may be mills, twenty-three roofed buildings, one of which is annotated Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), twenty-eight unroofed structures, some enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney & Shetland (Shetland) 1882, sheet li). Seven unroofed buildings, two partially roofed buildings, twenty roofed buildings, some enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 June 2001.
