The Ness of Brodgar is the theme of the summer exhibition in the Orkney Museum at Tankerness House. Bernie Bell has been there to see it. There were some old favourites which I had seen before including what, in my opinion...
Category - Archaeology & History
The Earl, the Bishop, and the springtime of science
The Earl’s Palace in Kirkwall was built by Patrick Stewart at a time when deep currents were coming to the surface across Europe, in politics and in ideas. A chain of events was unfolding, that would lead to thirty years of war...
The Cairns comes to Stromness Museum
We’ve followed developments at the archaeology dig at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay since it began...
An epic of steam and steel
John Goodlad’s new book The Salt Roads tells how the salt fish trade connected Shetland with the...
Sailing with Shackleton – an Orkney link
One of the great voyages of history was made by Commander Frank Worsley, going with Shackleton to...
HMS Hood, Last of her kind
HMS Hood has a strong claim to being the most famous warship of the 20th century, a paragon of the...
75 years of the Churchill Barriers
Tuesday 12 May is the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Churchill barriers that link Burray...
The era when the cold came back
By 16,000 years ago, according to the current estimates of the BRITICE-CHRONO project, the ice...
Island Wildcats?
I once saw a wildcat. I was approaching a bare heather clad summit, about 900 metres above sea...
Standing stone holds clues to early Orcadians
It stands in an open field in North Ronaldsay that slopes to the sea, down from the Old Kirk with...