Sheila has long been captivated by the light, landscape and lore of Orkney. From her earliest designs to her latest collections, Orkney has remained a constant source of inspiration, with each day on the islands bringing something new.
In this context the islands of Orkney, with its rich Neolithic archaeology, are an obvious area worthy of investigation. The same techniques applied to investigations of the Altar Stone and ORS sequences in southern Britain have been applied to two major Neolithic monuments on Mainland Orkney, ...
the West of Scotland—cut through the flagstones with a prevalent direction towards west or north-west." Messrs Peach and Horne, in their paper onThe Old Red Sandstone of Orkney(III., p. 14), describe them in the following terms: "Several dykes of basalt were observed among the islands....
Orkney Islands South Ronaldsay consists of Devonian sandstones and flagstones, with many dolerite dykes. There is granite on the south-eastern shore of Burray. To the NW, almost enclosed by islands is Scapa Flow, there is a sea area 24 km by 11 km with strong tidal currents. It is ...
Paleo-windsMiddle Devonian Rousay Flagstones (Orkney Islands) show abundant ripple marks.511 ripple orientations are used to reconstruct Devonian paleo-wind directions.Two dominant orientations suggest paleo-winds from the SSE and NNE, respectively.Reconstructed wind directions correspond well with ...
there was a fall of dust resem-bling Roman cement over all Orkney, and probably Jutland also ; at least it extended as far as Lerwick, the capital of these islands, as it fell on the sails of a French sloop-of-war which was in that bay at the time ; and by all the intelligent ...