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Rousay, Scock Ness
Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Site Name Rousay, Scock Ness
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Canmore ID 2699
Site Number HY43SE 3
NGR HY 4527 3254
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2699
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY43SE 3 4527 3254.
(HY 4527 3254) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
Applies to the site of an old chapel. No information respecting it could be ascertained. The enclosure is a burial ground, and is still used.
Name Book 1880.
Only a vague hollow occupied by grave slabs marks the site of this chapel. The burial ground is now disused.
Visited by OS(AA) 17 October 1972.
Field Visit (August 1979)
As described. - Graveyard forms a broad mound on summit of
natural ridge.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Aug 79.
Field Visit (August 1979)
(Chapel of Scockness) HY 4527 3254 HY43SE 3
This site is in a recently disused graveyard; Marwick reports that it was resorted to by child-bearing women, a fact that suggests a dedication to Our Lady.
RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1979
(Name Book, Orkney, No. 16, p. 94; Marwick 1924, 19; OR 484)
Note (15 October 2010)
For the associated mound and prehistoric settlement remains upon which the burial ground sits, refer to HY43SE 3.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 15 October 2010
