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The project, which will record every last detail of Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral, is to begin later this year. Orkney Islands Council is currently looking for experts to carry out detailed scans ...
A survey of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall has recorded 600 ... The volunteer graffiti hunter told BBC Radio Orkney she had been excited to take part in the survey. She had been hoping to find ...
Shape of skull Centuries later, in 1919, a wooden box with a skull showing a wound and an assortment of bones inside was discovered during renovations to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall on Orkney.
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Magnus Erlendsson shared the earldom of Orkney with his cousin ... of bones inside was discovered during renovations to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. A University of Aberdeen professor and ...
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The premier on the following night of The Story of Magnus Erlendsson by two Orkney creatives – composer ... Kirkwall Grammar School and the St Magnus Cathedral Singers. A far-cry from the ...
And it was over to the port and fishing town of Stromness, Orkney’s second settlement ... focused performances of Corsican hymns and songs in St Magnus Cathedral, the six singers wrapping arms around ...
Stone masons have been called in to inspect part of St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney, days before it will be at the centre of the commemorations for the Battle of Jutland. A section of sandstone ...
Work is underway to record graffiti left in Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral over the past 900 years. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...
back in St Magnus Cathedral. Orkney’s weather made a fitting counterpoint here, as the radiant colours drawn by Ferris from his singers – not to mention Paul Chamberlain’s accordion making ...
Volunteer graffiti hunter Melba Leonard was the first to record this mark on a pillar A survey of St Magnus ... Orkney Archaeology Society, said the discoveries underlined the fact that the ...