_290 North Isles Landscape Partnership "The NILPS has been specially created to support life in Orkney\u2019s North Isles, while conserving and raising awareness of their distinctive identities, heritage and culture. To achieve this goal, the NILPS plans to deliver a range of innovative projects over the next five years, working closely with local communities. Projects will focus on everything from island life and culture, and the conservation of local knowledge, to initiatives aimed at encouraging the discovery of local landscapes. Ways in which island communities can thrive into the future will also be explored and supported. The NILPS is being supported by Orkney Islands Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Historic Environment Scotland, the RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage, and The National Lottery." alanr@st-andrews.ac.uk Organization text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D "The NILPS has been specially created to support life in Orkney\u2019s North Isles, while conserving and raising awareness of their distinctive identities, heritage and culture. To achieve this goal, the NILPS plans to deliver a range of innovative projects over the next five years, working closely with local communities. Projects will focus on everything from island life and culture, and the conservation of local knowledge, to initiatives aimed at encouraging the discovery of local landscapes. Ways in which island communities can thrive into the future will also be explored and supported. The NILPS is being supported by Orkney Islands Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Historic Environment Scotland, the RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage, and The National Lottery." text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" image/jpeg Tour "" image/jpeg Tour "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "Westray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, with a usual resident population of a little over 550 people." Tour "Westray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, with a usual resident population of a little over 550 people." Tour "A tour of North Ronaldsay." Tour "A tour of North Ronaldsay." Tour "Sanday is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland." Tour "Sanday is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland." Tour "Shapinsay is one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 29.5 square kilometres (11.4 sq mi), it is the eighth largest island in the Orkney archipelago." Tour "Shapinsay is one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 29.5 square kilometres (11.4 sq mi), it is the eighth largest island in the Orkney archipelago." Tour "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "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).\r\nIn one corner there is a section on World War I. There is an area on Shipwrecks and our new display for 2020 was the board display of Scapa Flow and the Scuttling of the German Fleet. with the B98\u2019s part in the Battle of Jutland.\r\nThe most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone. \r\nThe Horne Room is our Reference area which holds a lot of records for Family History and former displays. Here we hold the Sanday Photographic material and Oral History archives." image/jpeg Panorama "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).\r\nIn one corner there is a section on World War I. There is an area on Shipwrecks and our new display for 2020 was the board display of Scapa Flow and the Scuttling of the German Fleet. with the B98\u2019s part in the Battle of Jutland.\r\nThe most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone. \r\nThe Horne Room is our Reference area which holds a lot of records for Family History and former displays. Here we hold the Sanday Photographic material and Oral History archives." image/jpeg Panorama "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).\r\nIn one corner there is a section on World War I. There is an area on Shipwrecks and our new display for 2020 was the board display of Scapa Flow and the Scuttling of the German Fleet. with the B98\u2019s part in the Battle of Jutland.\r\nThe most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone. \r\nThe Horne Room is our Reference area which holds a lot of records for Family History and former displays. Here we hold the Sanday Photographic material and Oral History archives." image/jpeg Panorama "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).\r\nIn one corner there is a section on World War I. There is an area on Shipwrecks and our new display for 2020 was the board display of Scapa Flow and the Scuttling of the German Fleet. with the B98\u2019s part in the Battle of Jutland.\r\nThe most recent requisition is the Appiehouse Stone, found under a floor in a house in Lady Village. This is a Pictish\/Christian Stone. \r\nThe Horne Room is our Reference area which holds a lot of records for Family History and former displays. Here we hold the Sanday Photographic material and Oral History archives." image/jpeg Panorama "The B98 was in the Battle of Jutland in the First World War. Latterly it was using as the mail boat for the German Fleet interned at Scapa flow. then B98 arrived back in Orkney a day after the scuttling of the German fleet. it was boarded by the British and as it was being towed south it broke its mooring and came ashore in Lopnmess bay." image/jpeg Panorama "The Croft, whose inhabitants left in 1966, was taken over by the Heritage Group who, in 2011 started renovating the interior. The first image in of the \u2018But\u2019 end of the Croft and the second image is of the \u2018Ben\u2019 end. The original flag stone floors were found when the concrete flooring was taken up. The furniture and household items were supplied by generous gifts from the island folk which enable the Croft to depict what it would have looked like in the 1900\u2019s." image/jpeg Panorama "The Croft, whose inhabitants left in 1966, was taken over by the Heritage Group who, in 2011 started renovating the interior. The first image in of the \u2018But\u2019 end of the Croft and the second image is of the \u2018Ben\u2019 end. The original flag stone floors were found when the concrete flooring was taken up. The furniture and household items were supplied by generous gifts from the island folk which enable the Croft to depict what it would have looked like in the 1900\u2019s." image/jpeg Panorama "This is a reconstruction of the Burnt Mound which was re-excavated from the shore below Meur in the north of the island." image/jpeg Panorama "This was taken in front of the Brickie Hut, a control room in World War II, for a dummy airfield on the Plain of Fidge. It over looks Cata Sand and onto to the sand dunes." image/jpeg Panorama "The Black Rock Jetty was built to transport mail and passengers by boat to and from North Ronaldsay. With the onset of the plane it was no longer put to use and is now in a state of disrepair." image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "This image was taken on top of the ruined cairn at Whitemill Point showing part of the wreck the \u2018Wanga\u2019 which came ashore in 1939. The stretch of water is the North Ronaldsay Firth with a glimpse of North Ronaldsay on the horizon." image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "Film taken looking towards the tidal island of Start Point off Sanday.\r\nThe first beacon was a masonry unlit tower. Then in 1806 a new lighthouse with a revolving light was established. Start Point lighthouse was painted with its black and white vertical stripes around 1915." image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "" video/mp4 Panorama "This short taster tour gives visitors a glimpse into two of Stromness Museum's galleries. Each gallery contains 'hotspots' which can be clicked to give you more information on a wide variety of objects in our collection.\r\n\r\n\r\nFunded by Museums Galleries Scotland, March 2021" Tour "This short taster tour gives visitors a glimpse into two of Stromness Museum's galleries. Each gallery contains 'hotspots' which can be clicked to give you more information on a wide variety of objects in our collection.\r\n\r\n\r\nFunded by Museums Galleries Scotland, March 2021" Tour "Looking outside the museum into the Stromness townscape, we put museum objects into their wider context. Visit several locations in the town of Stromness to discover some of the stories behind our collection.\r\n\r\nFunded by Museums Galleries Scotland, March 2021" Tour "Looking outside the museum into the Stromness townscape, we put museum objects into their wider context. Visit several locations in the town of Stromness to discover some of the stories behind our collection.\r\n\r\nFunded by Museums Galleries Scotland, March 2021" Tour "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Image "Stronsay is an island in Orkney, Scotland. It is known as Orkney's 'Island of Bays', owing to an irregular shape with miles of coastline, with three large bays separated by two isthmuses: St Catherine's Bay to the west, the Bay of Holland to the south and Mill Bay to the east. Stronsay is 3,275 hectares (13 square miles) in area, and 44 metres (144 feet) in altitude at its highest point. It has a usually resident population of about 320. The main village is Whitehall, home to a heritage centre." Tour "Stronsay is an island in Orkney, Scotland. It is known as Orkney's 'Island of Bays', owing to an irregular shape with miles of coastline, with three large bays separated by two isthmuses: St Catherine's Bay to the west, the Bay of Holland to the south and Mill Bay to the east. Stronsay is 3,275 hectares (13 square miles) in area, and 44 metres (144 feet) in altitude at its highest point. It has a usually resident population of about 320. The main village is Whitehall, home to a heritage centre." Tour "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "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 "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 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 "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 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 "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "The Broch Tower itself - the interior of which was excavated in the 18805 is the centre piece of a very extensive Iron Age settlement which stood on the shore of Strom Ness. On the Broch's landward side are the buried remains of a village\r\nbeyond which are two deep fortification ditches. The settlement was evidently occupied late into the Pictish period to 800 AD or even later for among the relics found were several objects which were distinctively Christian. The Buman Cross found inscribed on a flat piece of stone at this site has been adopted as a motif in modern Orkney jewellery." image/jpeg Panorama "The Broch Tower itself - the interior of which was excavated in the 18805 is the centre piece of a very extensive Iron Age settlement which stood on the shore of Strom Ness. On the Broch's landward side are the buried remains of a village\r\nbeyond which are two deep fortification ditches. The settlement was evidently occupied late into the Pictish period to 800 AD or even later for among the relics found were several objects which were distinctively Christian. The Buman Cross found inscribed on a flat piece of stone at this site has been adopted as a motif in modern Orkney jewellery." image/jpeg Panorama "A tour of the main of the important sites of North Ronaldsay." image/jpeg Tour "A tour of the main of the important sites of North Ronaldsay." image/jpeg Tour "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "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 "" image/jpeg Image "" Audio "" Audio "" Audio "" image/jpeg Image "" Audio "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" image/jpeg Image "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/jpeg Image "" image/jpeg Image "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" image/jpeg Panorama "" image/png Image "" image/png Image "" image/jpeg Panorama "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" video/mp4 Video "" audio/mp3 Audio "" audio/mp3 Audio "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" image/jpeg Image "" image/jpeg Image "" image/jpeg Image "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object "" text/plain Alias/WaveFront Object 3D Object 58.9813745 -2.9592316