St Magnus Cathedral West Window [Fran Hollinrake, St Magnus Cathedral] If you have been inside or walked past St Magnus Cathedral any time since March 2021, it won’t have escaped your attention that there is significant work going on at the west end of the building. This is the first phase of a ten-year plan […]
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The Witch’s Spell Box Church display containing the witch’s spell box [Tom Muir] In the Merchant Laird’s Gallery in the Orkney Museum there is one of the strangest artefacts that is on display in the museum. Very little is known about it, other than it was discovered buried in peat somewhere near Stromness. It belongs
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Carved wooden crucifixion plaque from St Magnus Cathedral Dr. Alison Sheridan of National Museums Scotland visited the Orkney Museum to undertake a condition assessment of artefacts on loan from NMS ahead of our Medieval Gallery refurbishment. The note begins just as Principle Gordon’s article in Archaeologia Scotica (1972, Volume 1, pages 256-268) reads: “In this cathedral
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