More information : [SK 88192919] Stone Cists found about 1842 [T.I.] (1) [SK 88182918] Stone Cists found about 1842 [T.I.] (2) Stone coffins and skeletons found in a stack yard some 594ft west of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Wyville; the date of the find is not definitely known, but is locally considered to be about 1842 (4). [The distance quoted agrees with the siting symbol on OS 25" 1904]. White (3) infers that the coffins were associated with the Church, which existed before the present one was built in 1858 [St. Catherine's at SK 88082938]. (3,4) One of the coffins, medieval in type, lies at SK 8808 2939, in the yard of the modern church. There are no surface indication of a building at either of the published sites. (5)
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