A Skull For Valentine’s?….
by Bernie Bell - 10:19 on 08 February 2024
A Skull For Valentine’s?….
This might seem a bit odd….OK….. it is odd – when did that ever stop me?
I recently came across a suggestion that for Valentine’s Day rather than be given a heart-shaped box of chocolates, some folk would prefer to be given an interesting skull…..
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=774630081374256&set=a.458953639608570
I understand this preference, and also like to either find or be given rusty bits of metal and gnarly bits of wood.
We have quite a few skulls scattered around and in our house, so I thought I’d trawl through my folders and put together a compilation of skull photos, sometimes with the tale of their finding.
Maybe a bit of a niche item – but might be of interest to my fellow skull-enthusiasts. Here goes……
A North Ronaldsay sheep skull, from the Auskerry flock, provides a winter home for a couple of big, fat snails...
Rerwick re-visited….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/11/14/rerwick-revisited/
...and we found what we think is a Porpoise skull?
PS.... I'm reliably informed that ...."If you have any of the teeth, they will be a distinct paddle-shape that is diagnostic of a porpoise… or distinctly pointy if a dolphin."
A big bull-seal’s skull picked up on the Copinsay shore - now nearly over-grown by Alchemilla…..
A smaller seal skull – with teeth! – also being over-grown…
Bird skulls on the bookcase…
Mike brought this skull back when he went ‘over the hills and far away’…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/06/08/the-western-isles-or-there-and-back-again-xi/
Don’t know what it is – can’t remember where in Orkney – didn’t bring it home because it was too smelly!
Not one we brought home – the whale skull which used to stand near the Brough of Birsay……
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-65497989
………and inside it……….
Not ours either, but can’t resist…
– here’s an explanation of how I came to take those pics….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/09/10/a-feast-of-forage-at-the-orkney-science-festival/
A Pterodactyl at Rose Ness?…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/12/04/rose-ness-on-a-sunny-sunday/
And finally – how often do you get to see an Iron Age Otter Skull?....
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16008
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