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Sanday, Cleat
Chapel (Medieval), Long Cist (Early Medieval)
Site Name Sanday, Cleat
Classification Chapel (Medieval), Long Cist (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 3625
Site Number HY74SW 6
NGR HY 704 427
NGR Description HY c. 704 427
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3625
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Lady
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY74SW 6 704 427.
(Area: HY 704 427) A small chapel formerly stood near the farm-house of Cleat although there is no longer any evidence of its precise position. In a knoll immediately behind the farm buildings, a long cist was accidentally discovered during cultivation several years before 1928 but no relics are recorded as having been found in it.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
No trace and no local knowledge of the chapel or cist.
Visited by OS(NKB) 12 July 1970.
Note (1980)
Chapel of Cleat, Sanday HY c. 704 427 HY74SW 6
Reputedly the most sacred in Sanday and a pilgrimage centre. It is said to have stood in the field between the house of Cleat and the shore.
RCAHMS 1980
(Marwick 1923a, 26; RCAhMS 1946, ii, p. 171, No. 459; OR 274)
