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Rousay, Knarston
Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Rousay, Knarston
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 2625
Site Number HY42NW 11
NGR HY 4464 2927
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2625
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 11 4464 2927.
(HY 4464 2927) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
This name applies to a grave yard, still in use, which contains the site of a Romish chapel.
Name Book 1880.
There is no trace of a chapel in this small modern graveyard containing 19th and 20thC gravestones. The last burial was in 1916 and no further interments are anticipated.
Visited by OS (ISS) 7 October 1972.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Very small burial ground occupying S side of a broad
platform which continues N into the mound. The mound is
shapeless, with occasional erect slabs in it, and is certainly
artificial although it appears too insubstantial to be a broch.
The shore banks are grassed although the mound seems to have been
truncated by erosion this appears not to be active.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 80.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Kirk House HY 4464 2928 HY42NW 11, 12
Very small burial-ground, disused during the present century, occupying S side of a broad platform; this rises on the N side to form a shapeless mound with occasional erect slabs. The mound seems too insubstantial to contain a broch, but is probably an early settlement site subsequently used for the chapel.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(Name Book., Orkney, No. 16, p. 208; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 227, No. 604; OR 512)
