Stone balls from the stone age
Orkney Museum has an assortment of stone balls in its cabinets. They’re from the Neolithic and our ancestors kept them and prized …
The Orkney Museum
I love the Orkney Museum in the centre of Kirkwall, opposite St Magnus Cathedral. One of the mind-blowing exhibits is a carved …
Reading the runes
I love the Orkney Museum. Every time I go there I see something else that I’d bypassed on all previous visits. Here’s …
A petrosphere at the Orkney Museum
I’m fascinated by this neolithic petrosphere, or stone-age stone ball, at the Orkney Museum. I lean forward and suddenly bump my nose on the glass looking at it. What is it? What was it used for?
Serpentine egg
A trip through the Orkney Museum in Tankerness House in Kirkwall is an essential part of any visit to Orkney. There are …
“The North our home, the sea our friend”
The Coat of Arms of the Orkney Islands Council is displayed in the Orkney Museum. The gold ship on a blue background …
The Chart of the Seas – Orkney on the Carta Marina from 1539
Orkney Museum has a fabulous reproduction of a beautiful and seriously unscientific map of Scandinavia showing the islands of Orkney, which was …
One of my favourite objects
One of my favourite objects in the Orkney Museum is this neolithic pestle mace head. It makes me wonder just how fabulous …
Orkney Museum Staircase
I love Tankerness House which houses the Orkney Museum. Here are a couple of views of the staircase.
A beautiful whalebone plaque from an Orkney Viking boat burial
One of the most remarkable features of current archaeology is just how much there is still to discover still lying a few …