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Shrooms, plants, place-names, illicit whisky stills... currently working on the #PlaceNames of Eday, Rousay & Stronsay #Orkney https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/research/place-names-of-northern-scotland.aspx
Is there no end to podcasts with me rabbiting on about the #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney? Well, I'm not good at saying no and I particularly enjoyed this one with Natalie of @ifitaintbaroquepod.bsky.social - she asked some good questions! shows.acast.com/if-it-aint-b...
Screenshot of OS 1st ed map of Muckle Skerry. Names include Tenniscourt, Parliament Square, The Kettle
Muckle Skerry has some cracking names
Map showing four 'Manitoba' field names in South Ronaldsay, Orkney: 1st Field of Manitoba; 2nd Field of Manitoba; Manitoba - Field with the Water Supply in it; and Old Silage Field - Manitoba.
New Fields of Time post
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-03...
It's on FB too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
Oluf Rygh nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluf_Rygh not only began that essential work Norske Gaardnavne, but also excavated in 1867 the #Tune #Viking #Ship (being moved to this week), the first of the three famous ships to be excavated. He was the first professor of archaeology in a Scandinavian university.
Fantastic! Well done!
Patchwork squares in various stages of completion
The patchwork is going look amazing when it's finished - and massive
Facebook page screenshot. Cover photo: three people stitching. Profile photo: a section of green patchwork with stitched field boundaries.
I've just set up a Facebook page for out Fields of Time project. If you want to get in really early, here's the link: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
OS 1st ed map showing 'Well'
Field-name survey map showing the same spot annotated 'Whisky Well'
A wee bonus from from a recent batch of field-names is that we now know what this well near Roeberry (South Ronaldsay) - unnamed on the OS - is called
Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
Front page of The Orcadian's Gaan Oot section with Fields of Time in large green text, showing patchwork in progress and images of folk stitching
We're in The Orcadian!
If you have field-names to share, or ken folk that do, please get in touch: fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
And just tidied up the menus on mobile displays
And if you still haven't had your fill of #Orkneyingasaga #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney (who has?), I'm doing a webinar on 4th March: www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/history-scot... (see also Niall Sharples on #Vikings in the #Hebrides on Thursday)
Where golden light.
Runs to the sea.
Ettan's Pow.
Today.
#Papay #Orkney #islands
What a wonderful project! Great website too - fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net#home
Looking forward to this!
Join us for a new UHI Islands Matter free online seminar titled 'Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore'.
➕ 26/02/26 1.00pm - 2.30pm UK time.
➕ Free
➕ Online, so you can access from anywhere in the world (if you have internet access)
Register: tinyurl.com/bdzd9czu
Love a Fulmar... effortless grace.
Balaclava Sevastapol Cronstadt Inkerman
An interesting wee cluster of Crimean War field-names from South Ronaldsay
There aren't many serene days on #Papay
But on a calm Autumn day a Grey phalarope, obliging as ever.
Known as a Haf web on Papay.
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Serenity
Nice word 😊!
Just one week until UHI Institute for Northern Studies Mapping Identities Conference hosted at UHI Perth and online 10/02/2026. Full programme now confirmed. Still time to register www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around #Orkney this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A Neolithic winter.
The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January.
A fastness in time, caught.
#Papay #neolithic #archaeology #orkney
The Old Kirk and the sea.
Looking South to St Boniface kirk on my first ever visit to Papay, Christmas eve 2013.
An island of light, to come.
#Orkney #Papay #islandlight #Spring
Yay! Well done! What's the cider like?!
Some great place-names too! Courtesy of Marwick: Hassings ON hálsa m. 'neck', for the isthmus joining the Holm to Cairn Head... the route from the island... to an island (at low tide) & Tide o' Hest m. 'stallion' somewhere off the south end there.
Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky
A bad hair day for a Hair duck.
Red-breasted merganser in a brisk Southerly.
Hair duck, Papay name.
#Papay #Orkney #birdnames
Yes... just the 14 jars.. jam-maker's dozen? 🤔
2026 batch of Seville Orange #Marmalade... done!