Name: | St. Ola's | CISP No: | WNESS |
Place: | Whiteness | Grid Ref: | HU 3866 4442 (GB) |
Parish: | Tingwall | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Shetland , Scotland | Saint(s): | Olaf |
Site Type: | Incomplete Information |
Forsyth/1996, 495--496: `Little is known of the site's early history...in all probability the site does pre-date the conversion of the Vikings of the Northern Isles...The dedication to the eleventh-century Norse Saint King Olaf Haraldsson does not rule out the possibility of an earlier foundation subsequently re-named. A total of three fragments of early christian sculpture has been discovered at St. Ola's...[and] a stone lined grave was discovered on the Whiteness site in 1938. It contained an iron axe-head of late ninth century Norse type'.