Foula, Baxter Chapel
Planticrub (Post Medieval), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Foula, Baxter Chapel
Classification Planticrub (Post Medieval), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Kru Katherine
Canmore ID 194
Site Number HT93NE 3
NGR HT 9687 3767
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/194
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HT93NE 3 9687 3767.
(Area HT 968 376) 'Kru Katherine' is the name given to a small enclosure situated about 200 yards SW of the Baxter Chapel on the west side of the public road. Ashes and a number of pot-sherds are said to have been discovered in a partial excavation made some years before 1930.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930
At HT 9687 3766 the amorphous remains of a probable Neolithic-Bronze Age house, denuded by the building of a plantycrub standing at its W edge. The house occurs within an associated enclosure.
Visited by OS (R L) 5 June 1968.
