Simmans: This is a strong straw rope formed of two cants twisted together and spun by hand alone.
Manufacture of Straw Articles in Orkney: Part 2
Manufacture of Straw Articles in Orkney
The materials from which articles of straw were made were principally bent, and the straw of black oats.
The Oyce of Firth: Part Two
To name all the flowers found in this neighbourhood would be to give almost the complete flora of the county
The Oyce of Firth: Part One
The Oyce has not always been what it now is, – an arm of the sea at high water and a stretch of mud and sand with low water.
The Ruins of Breckness: The House of Bishop Graham
Suffer this gent the bearer thereof, John Grahame, to passe to Edenbor, with his servant and two horses, and backe again into Kirkwall into ye Isls of Orkney,
The Ruins of Breckness: the Grahams
His great hobby,however, appears to have been house building, for he built the mansion houses of Graemshall in Holm, Skaill in Sandwick, and Breckness in Stromness
The Ruins of Breckness: Prehistoric & Modern – Brochs
The entrance to a broch is generally about S.E., and a passage runs through the thickness of the wall to the interior court
The Trap Dykes of Stromness: Part 5
We have in connection with this parish three separate trap dykes.
The Trap Dykes of Stromness: Part 4
If the trap dykes were deposited at the close of the Old Red era, we may reasonably expect them to furnish us with some indication of the processes by which the land attained its present configuration.
The Trap Dykes of Stromness: Part 3
“Level with the Old Red Sandstone rocks, with the remains of the Coccosteus lying exposed on their surface, “
