Slides for a talk for the Between Islands Festival, Kirwall, Orkney 25 September 2019

1. Space, Place, and Grace:
Perspectives of a nisomaniac
Professor Frank Rennie
University of the Highlands and Islands
Lews Castle College

3. 58o 26’ 34” N
06o 23’ 37” W

4. Location

5. Drifting Continents
Torsvik, T. H., (1998). Palaeozoic palaeogeography: A North Atlantic viewpoint. GFF 120 (2) pp109-118.

6. Brebhig: the end of moving ice?

7. Tobha Gabhsann
:Interbedded Till
and Peat

8. Iron-Age midden circa 800BC- 1BC

9. The Galson Earth House

10. Cnoc Aird earth house

11. Pottery fragments – indefinite age (Iron-age to modern)

12. Other Galson finds…
Whalebone weaving comb
Worked antler
Bone
needle
100-
800 AD
Bronze horse-harness mount
Decorated bone plate (box cover?)
c 500 AD
Rope toggle (antler)

13. Tobair Bhrìghde

14. Galson Dun, circa 600 BC

15. 1000 –
1100
AD

16. Bronze horse-harness
mount, inlaid with red
and green enamel,
from a Viking grave in
Galson (850-950 AD)

17. Viking Trade Routes

18. Blaeu’s Atlas 1654
http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/browse/104

19. Murdoch Mackenzie’s chart of 1750

20. 1819Teampall nan Crò Naomh, William Daniell prints

22. Taktsang, Bhutan

23. 1855

24. 1895

25. 1863
Remains of pre-clearance houses, North Galson

26. Corn-drying kiln, Shawbost

27. Scott, L. (1951) Corn-drying kilns. Antiquity 25 (Is. 100) pp196-208. DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00020524
Galson corn-drying kiln

28. Corn-drying kiln, Galson

29. 1921
-23

34. 1999

37. http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=4319

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