St Magnus Cathedral West Window [Fran Hollinrake, St Magnus Cathedral] If you have ever stood at the west end of the cathedral as the sun is going down, you may have been privileged to see the glowing splashes of colour as the sunlight floods through the west window onto the sturdy round pillars of the […]
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The Witch’s Spell Box Church display containing the witch’s spell box [Tom Muir] In the Merchant Laird’s Gallery in the Orkney Museum there is one of the strangest artefacts that is on display in the museum. Very little is known about it, other than it was discovered buried in peat somewhere near Stromness. It belongs
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Carved wooden crucifixion plaque from St Magnus Cathedral Dr. Alison Sheridan of National Museums Scotland visited the Orkney Museum to undertake a condition assessment of artefacts on loan from NMS ahead of our Medieval Gallery refurbishment. The note begins just as Principle Gordon’s article in Archaeologia Scotica (1972, Volume 1, pages 256-268) reads: “In this cathedral
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