Scheduled Monument
Peter's Kirk,church,burial ground and broch N of Outer UrrigarSM1483
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 10/04/1957
- Last Date Amended
- 13/02/1995
- Type
- Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; chapel; church, Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
- Local Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Parish
- Evie And Rendall
- NGR
- HY 33761 28691
- Coordinates
- 333761, 1028691
Description
The monument consists of the remains of a small church beside a burial ground, both overlying a ruined prehistoric settlement, almost certainly an Iron Age broch.
The ecclesiastical remains sit 4m from the edge of a low cliff. The church was bicameral, with a rectangular nave 8m by 7m externally and a rectangular chancel 4.9m by 5m externally. The walls are much reduced, but a date in the 13th or early 14th century is suggested.
Underneath the church and burial ground, and revealed in the coastal section by marine erosion, is an extensive settlement of Iron Age date, consisting of a broch with extensive external settlement.
The area to be scheduled is irregular in plan, bounded on the NNE by the top of a low coastal cliff and by existing fences elsewhere. It measures a maximum of 72m WNW-ESE by 32m, to include the church, burial ground and the estimated extent of the prehistoric settlement, as marked in red on the accompanying map. Modern fences are excluded.
References
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