This one has a good, and interesting mixture.
Orkney Archaeological Society Review
Poetry Corner: Day-Job’s Over
“Day-job’s over, come on now John/ Time to be getting your diggin’ boots on
Circles, lines, tales to tell and roads to travel.
the stories of stones, and people, and people picking up stones on their travels, and stones travelling with people.
Bernie Bell: Skaill Bay, Sandwick
“The place name Skaill is associated with old sites from the Norse period”
Bernie Bell: The Cairns – the story of a broch
one of the prize finds there, was a whalebone with the jaw-bone of a man carefully placed inside it
Bernie’s Stories: Skaill House Revisited
I had the idea that there were buildings there, before the ones we can see, now
Bernie’s Stories: Skaill House
I asked what bones? My friend said to ask Malcolm MacRae!
Bernie’s Stories: Death Days – Past and Present.
The family then have a ‘Day of Death’ when they place the bones in the ‘second house’.
Bernie Bell: Rerwick, Tankerness
patterns which look vaguely human, reminds me of some ancient rock art
Bernie Bell: Orkney Walks (with Stories)- Hoy & the Dwarfie Stane
“It’s said to be a ‘rock-cut tomb’. It’s nothing to do with dead folk, it’s a resonance chamber. “
