Working Stone [Author: Tom Muir] The 2017 summer exhibition at the Orkney Museum, ‘Conversations with Magic Stones’, was the culmination of a project that researched Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age stone artefacts and the collectors from Orkney who gathered them. The project was led by Professor Mark Edmunds and Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Ann Clark and […]
Mizzle and strife and all things nice [Author: Clare Gee] It all started with a nose bleed. A scary nosebleed that would not stop. A friend drove me to A&E at the Balfour where it did eventually stop and I went home again and tried to make sure it didn’t happen again. It was the
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Orkney’s Iron Age Hood The woollen hood found in a Tankerness peat-moss in the 19th century has been found to date to the Late Iron Age, thanks to carbon dates obtained by the National Museum of Scotland. It seems to have been made sometime between the third and seventh centuries AD. The replica Orkney Hood in
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