Foula, North Harrier
Burial Ground (Medieval)(Possible), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Foula, North Harrier
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval)(Possible), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 202
Site Number HT94SE 5
NGR HT 9578 4049
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/202
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HT94SE 5 9578 4049
(HT 9577 4050) Chapel (NR) (site of): Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
There are now no clear indications of the ground-plan of the chapel nor any traces of a burial ground. An early structure of considerable extent probably once stood here, but, if so, its true character cannot be determined without excavation. Within the years before 1930 remains of building were accidentally exposed by the proprietor of the adjoining croft, and a few rude stone implements and fragments of hard baked pottery of close texture were recovered at the same time. Some of these fragments are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS). There is a tradition on the island that there was formerly a small ecclesiastical establishment somewhere in the neighbourhood.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.
RCAHMS confirmed.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 June 1968.
