Gruting, St Mary's Chapel And Burial-ground

Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), War Memorial (20th Century)

Site Name Gruting, St Mary's Chapel And Burial-ground

Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), War Memorial (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Gruting Cemetery; Chapelside; Gruting War Memorial

Canmore ID 280

Site Number HU24NE 15

NGR HU 2775 4910

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/280

Digital Images

DP 082127

General oblique aerial view of West Houlland with Gruting and Scutta Voe beyond, looking SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/6/2010

SC 1682535

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1691639

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1691638

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1929050

Oblique aerial photograph.

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Papers of Professor Dennis W Harding, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

1983

SC 1691642

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1691644

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the SSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 2336574

Gruting, St Mary's Chapel And Burial-Ground, HU24NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1691640

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke with the remains of the burnt mound adjacent, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1691641

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1691643

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, chapel, burial ground and head-dyke, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/6/2003

SC 1929052

Oblique aerial photograph.

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Papers of Professor Dennis W Harding, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

1983

DP 082126

General oblique aerial view with Stanydale in the foreground and Gruting beyond, looking SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/6/2010

SC 1929048

Oblique aerial photograph.

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Papers of Professor Dennis W Harding, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

1983

SC 1929051

Oblique aerial photograph.

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Papers of Professor Dennis W Harding, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

1983

SC 2336575

Gruting, St Mary's Chapel And Burial-Ground, HU24NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council Shetland Islands
Parish Sandsting
Former Region Shetland Islands Area
Former District Shetland
Former County Shetland

Archaeology Notes

HU24 NE 15 2775 4910

(HU 2774 4911) St.Mary's Chapel (NR)

(Site of) Burial Ground (NAT)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).

This chapel is said to have stood near the centre of the burial ground and to have dated from the 12th or 13th century.

Name Book 1878

No trace. Burial ground still in use.

Visited by OS (RL), 14 June 1968.

Activities

Field Visit (7 July 1931)

RCAHMS Inventory: Orkney and Shetland

St Mary's Chapel, Gruting.

Listed with no further information.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 7 July 1931.

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).

Project (February 2014 - July 2014)

A data upgrade project to record war memorials.

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