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Hall Of Rendall, St Thomas Kirk

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Church (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Hall Of Rendall, St Thomas Kirk

Classification Church (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 282771

Site Number HY42SW 34

NGR HY 4262 2099

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Evie And Rendall
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Rendall, Orkney, tegulated coped gravestone

Measurements: L c 1.80m, W c 0.70m, H c 0.60m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: HY c 424 210

Present location: lost.

Evidence for discovery: sketched by George Low in 1774, when it was lying ‘in an uncultivated spot of ground’ in the parish of Rendall on the east side of mainland. It may have come from the graveyard of St Thomas’s Kirk, a medieval chapel set beside a possible broch. Tradition assigns it to the church at South Ettit (ID 2428), and this may have been its secondary destination.

Present condition:

Description

Low’s description suggests that this monument was very similar to that at Skaill, Deerness. It is not entirely certain that his drawing shows the Skaill stone rather than the Rendall stone.

Date: eleventh or twelfth century.

References: Low 1879, 55; Lang 1974, 230; Ritchie 2004, 19.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017

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Excavation

HY42SW 34 4262 2099

See also HY42SW 11.

Church and settlement HY 4262 2099 An emergency excavation was carried out in February 2005 of human remains eroding from the cemetery associated with St Thomas Kirk. Excavation and survey revealed 21 bodies, of which 16 were fully excavated and 5 were recorded and left in situ. A topographic survey was undertaken on the Atlantic

roundhouse, cemetery and the church remains.

Archive to be deposited in NMRS.

Sponsor: HS.

R Toolis and M Cook 2005.

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