Easter Monday…..From The Horse’s Mouth - As it Were….. From The Neolithic To…..More From ‘Emergence’…
by Bernie Bell - 09:26 on 11 April 2023
Easter Monday
Simple souls
Watching voles
And birds
Building their nests
While on the telly
We enjoy
‘The Secret Life of Pets’
Home life.
BB April ‘23
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From The Horse’s Mouth - As it Were…
The most recent Ness of Brodgar Trust Newsletter has much of interest about what’s been happening, what is happening and what is planned to happen - including something of why the Ness dig is going to be put ‘on hold’ after next year……
https://go.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/nl3/CY06P2yGMl0CbQ-z3e8ZFg?hl=en
Plus GOOD THINGS in the shop – I take any opportunity to reference woodturner Michael Sinclair’s work…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/01/07/timelines-of-an-orkney-wood-turner/
And Jeanne Bouza-Rose…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/12/11/jeanne-jim-confusabear-in-a-good-way/
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From The Neolithic To…..
Three iron age settlements in Shetland are in the running to win Unesco World Heritage status……
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-65231943
To quote from the BBC article…..
”……a ‘pristine iron age time capsule’, it was excavated between 1995 and 2006.
Modern excavation techniques were used, ensuring a full understanding of the site, according to the submission to Unesco.”
As is happening - now - at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/08/26/revealing-the-cairns-part-one/
“From an interesting hummock in the land, this site has emerged and risen, year by year, structure by structure, layer by layer.”
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/08/27/revealing-the-cairns-part-two/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/11/the-cairns-on-a-sunny-sunny-open-day/
https://frontiersmagazine.org/the-cairns-comes-to-stromness-museum/
The dig will resume this summer…
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2022/11/16/cairns-2023/
A UNESCO Heritage Site in the making?
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More From ‘Emergence’…
Reindeer at the End of the World
by Bathsheba Demuth
“In this narrated essay from our archive, ecological historian Bathsheba Demuth explores the allure of the apocalyptic arc—the ending of an “old” world and the promise of a new, “perfect” one. As she crosses the easternmost edge of northern Russia, Bathsheba traces the rise and the ruin of the Soviet ideology that imposed its utopian vision of a tamed and commodified tundra upon the Native Chukchi people and their herds of reindeer. Finding uneasy parallels between such aims and today’s capitalist ideals, she considers survival against systems of power, and wonders how we might re-imagine the apocalyptic arc as the world as we know it ends. “
Available on
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Here’s one I made earlier… https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/05/22/poetry-corner-hurt/
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