| 词条 | Sandsting |
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SummaryThe parish includes the settlements of Skeld, Westerwick and Culswick. It contains the islands of Vementry and Papa Little together with a number of smaller islets, on the south side of St Magnus Bay, and comprehends a mainland district of about ten miles by eight between that bay and Scalloway Bay. The coast is partly bold, and cavernous; the seaboard is cut into sections by long bays; and the interior is mostly an assemblage of knolls and hillocks, with a profusion of heath and interspersions of moss.[4][5] The area of the parish is given as 162.4 km².[6] Antiquities include standing stones, burial monds and Old Norse fortifications, as well as church ruins and burial grounds. St Mary's Chapel in Sandsting was once the main church for the parish of Sandsting. The medieval church, which was built no later than the sixteenth century, now stands in ruin.[7] {{Imagemap Shetland}}EtymologySandsting is a place name derived from the farm of Sand. Ting, from the Old Norse Thing, is a reference to an assembly site or meeting place believed to have once been located within the area.[8] Note
References1. ^Parish of Sandsting (Scotland's places) 2. ^Sandsting and Aithsting (Vision of Britain) 3. ^Sandsting parish (Shetland) (Saints in Scottish Place-Names) 4. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst11116.html | title=Overview of Sandsting| publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland| accessdate=2009-08-08}} 5. ^Sandsting (Shetland Family History Society) 6. ^Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Sandsting 7. ^St Mary's Chapel by Sand (Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia) 8. ^Patterns of Assembly: Norse Thing Sites in Shetland (Alexandra Sanmark. Journal of the North Atlantic 2013 Special Volume 5:XX–XX) Related Reading
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