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Lamb Holm

Chapel (Medieval)

Site Name Lamb Holm

Classification Chapel (Medieval)

Canmore ID 2386

Site Number HY40SE 5

NGR HY 4827 0000

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Holm
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY40SE 5 4827 0000.

(HY 4827 0000) Chapel (NR) (site of) (NAT).

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

The site of what appears to have been a small building locally believed to have been a Roman Catholic Chapel.

Name Book 1879.

The site of this chapel could not be verified from local enquiry. There are no extant remains, and the area is now occupied by a modern road with adjacent military installations.

Visited by OS (NKB) 31 August 1964.

Activities

Orkney Smr Note (May 1979)

Site of what appears to have been a small building locally believed to have been a Roman Catholic chapel. [R1]

Listed. [R2]

Listed among sites. [R3]

Old 6in map locates. OS 6in, 1903.

Site could not be verified from local enquiry. No remains - area occupied by modern road and adjacent military installations.

OS visit Aug 64.

Site entirely quarried away.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) May 79.

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