| Name: | Bressay | CISP No: | BREAY |
| Place: | Bressay | Grid Ref: | HU 5210 4230 (GB)
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| Parish: | Shetland | Stones: | 1 |
| County: | Shetland , Scotland | Saint(s): | none |
| Site Type: | cemetery |
Forsyth/1996, 117--118: `...a piece of waste land near the old churchyard of Cullingsburgh (formerly known as Culbinsgarth) ... The ruined church of St. Mary's at Cullingsburgh is surrounded by a very old burying-ground ... the discovery of the cross-slab surely suggests some kind of Christian foundation there in the early medieval period. ... Very little is known of pre-Norse Bressay. The old churchyard is immediately adjacent to a very ruinous broch which has not been excavated. ... Within a few hundred yards is Papil Geo, (<Papabyl `priests dwelling') a place-name which incorporates the Norse word for Celtic ecclesiastics, papar'.