_1201 Sanday Heritage Centre "The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural History, (nature on land, links and shore), Archaeology, (Sanday \u2018archaeologically has the best landscape in Orkney\u2019), Farming, (Sanday, the granary of the North) and the Sea, (At the turn of the Tide). The most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone." English Collection TEXT "The Heritage Centre is situated in Lady Village in the formal Temperance Hall and was opened in May 2014. The main areas of display are Natural History, (nature on land, links and shore), Archaeology, (Sanday \u2018archaeologically has the best landscape in Orkney\u2019), Farming, (Sanday, the granary of the North) and the Sea, (At the turn of the Tide). The most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone." "This is an old Orkney ricking chair which is now sitting the 'Den' part of the Croft. Which lie adjacent to the Heritage Centre." Movable Heritage "This is an old Orkney ricking chair which is now sitting the 'Den' part of the Croft. Which lie adjacent to the Heritage Centre." image/jpeg Image "This jacket is on display in the Heritage Centre once belonged to one of the Horwood ladies of Scar. The Horwoods owned the Westove Estate from the 1870\u2019s until it was sold off in 1919." Movable Heritage "This jacket is on display in the Heritage Centre once belonged to one of the Horwood ladies of Scar. The Horwoods owned the Westove Estate from the 1870\u2019s until it was sold off in 1919." image/jpeg Image "This seed fiddle which has been loaned to us was probably used in the 1950\u2019s.\r\nIt was so named after the fiddle- like action required to distribute the seed." Movable Heritage "This seed fiddle which has been loaned to us was probably used in the 1950\u2019s.\r\nIt was so named after the fiddle- like action required to distribute the seed." image/jpeg Image "Before the days of tractors, horses were the main power for agriculture as well as transport.\r\nThis is one of a pair of horse collar harnesses which is on display at the Heritage Centre." Movable Heritage "Before the days of tractors, horses were the main power for agriculture as well as transport.\r\nThis is one of a pair of horse collar harnesses which is on display at the Heritage Centre." image/jpeg Image "This Viking rune stone was discovered in 1995 during the rebuilding of a collapsed dry stane dyke. One edge showing Norse Runes. This is a broken fragment of a group of words. The Sanday stone bears the name of the engineer Oskati or Askati. The final R being the start of the word \u2018resist\u2019 which means carved." Movable Heritage "This Viking rune stone was discovered in 1995 during the rebuilding of a collapsed dry stane dyke. One edge showing Norse Runes. This is a broken fragment of a group of words. The Sanday stone bears the name of the engineer Oskati or Askati. The final R being the start of the word \u2018resist\u2019 which means carved." image/jpeg Image "The Appiehouse Stone is a Pictish slab found under the floor during renovation of a local Sanday house in2011. After the stone was sent south for conservation it was returned to Orkney and is now on loan to us." Movable Heritage "The Appiehouse Stone is a Pictish slab found under the floor during renovation of a local Sanday house in2011. After the stone was sent south for conservation it was returned to Orkney and is now on loan to us." image/jpeg Image "This driftwood, showing beaver teeth marks, was found at the point of Elsness in 1915." Movable Heritage "This driftwood, showing beaver teeth marks, was found at the point of Elsness in 1915" image/jpeg Image "The Johannes was an emigrant ship sailing from Bremen to Baltimore in 1861. The ship ran aground in the bay between Newark and Tresness. Luckily all 137 passengers and crew came ashore safely. They were distributed among various farms where they resided for a month until another vessel was dispatched from Germany for the emigrants to continue their journey. As a thank you to the island they left behind their ship\u2019s bell. This hung for many years in the bell tower of the Cross Kirk. At the moment it is on display at the Heritage Centre as part of a display on Shipwrecks." Movable Heritage "The Johannes was an emigrant ship sailing from Bremen to Baltimore in 1861. The ship ran aground in the bay between Newark and Tresness. Luckily all 137 passengers and crew came ashore safely. They were distributed among various farms where they resided for a month until another vessel was dispatched from Germany for the emigrants to continue their journey. As a thank you to the island they left behind their ship\u2019s bell. This hung for many years in the bell tower of the Cross Kirk. At the moment it is on display at the Heritage Centre as part of a display on Shipwrecks." image/jpeg Image "Bell from the Concordia wrecked on Riv 9th November 1809" Movable Heritage "Bell from the Concordia wrecked on Riv 9th November 1809" image/jpeg Image "This is the wheel from the Wanja. Until recently it was making a decorative gate to a house in Sanday but was gifted to the Heritage Centre. The Wanja sailed from Florida en route to Sweden when it floundered at Whitemill Point on the island. This was on the 14th of October 1939, the same day as the Royal Oak was torpedoed and sunk in Scapa Flow." Movable Heritage "" image/jpeg Image "Quoyness chambered cairn is to be found on the Elsness peninsula and is approximately 5000 years old. The cairn is four metres high and has six chambers.\r\n\r\nThe remains of 10 adults and five children were found in the tomb along with two curiously sculptured stone objects and a whale bone pin." image/jpeg Image "Down at Stove in the south end of the island there is the ruinous remains of a large model farm.\r\n\r\nThis was one of the first farms here, in the 19th Century, to be fully mechanised.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately a large part of the steading was destroyed by fire in 1972." image/jpeg Image 59.2547511 -2.5516038