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Last Updated: February 12, 2008

History: When did St Magnus Die? A look at the usual years given for the Earl's death - and the suggestion of a new one - 1118.
History: Video link added to the 2000 Time Team television special on Minehowe.
Orkney: Updated the Orkney FAQ to outline the saga behind the county's new community flag.
Link: www.orkneyislands.info - a new online guide for visitors to Orkney.
Link: St Magnus Cathedral - a superb site from SCRAN, documenting the history of the cathedral, from the phases of its construction to modern day use.
History: Updated information on the destruction of the Standing Stones o' Stenness "altar".
Folklore: The Witchcraft Trial of Bessie Skebister.
History: New photographs added to Cuween Cairn pages.
History: New photographs added to Unstan cairn and the Orphir Round Kirk pages.
Links: Added a link to a marvellous site detailing Orkney's geology and landscape.
News: RSS feed added to archaeology news section
General: Page design rewritten to restrict page size on monitor resolutions greater that 1024x768.
History: New radiocarbon dates from the Tomb of the Eagles seems to indicate that eagle was not as significant to the tomb builders as once thought.
History: New photographs added to Standing Stones o' Stenness and Barnhouse Settlement.
History: New photographs added to Salt Knowe, Fresh Knowe and South Knowe pages of Around Brodgar.
History: Investigating Darraðarljoð and the Clontarf link
Folklore: The 1905 Shapinsay Sea Monster - newspaper account added.
History: Additional picture added to the "altar" page of the Standing Stones o' Stenness, showing another old view of the structure.
History: Eynhallow - section dealing with the sites on, and folklore surrounding, this island.
History: Stones o' Stenness. Start of a section update with new photographs relating to the dolmen and possible Maeshowe alignment.
History/Tradition: The Westray Dons and the Spanish Armada.
Photoblog: Due to bandwidth constraints, I have had to temporarily suspend the photoblog.
Dialect: 'Fleean Things'. The second of Gregor Lamb's articles.
Dialect: 'Creepi-Craalies' - Insect terms in Orcadian Dialect. The first of two articles by Gregor Lamb.
Portfolio: Panoramic image of Kirkwall from Wideford Hill added.
Portfolio: Link restored to panoramic photograph section "A Monumental Landscape".
Awards: Orkneyjar receives EduNET's Choice Award.
Tradition: Odin in Orkney Tradition.
Tradition: The Charm of the 'Wreestin' Threed'.
History: Jo Ben's 1529 Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum - the earliest account of Orkney after the transfer to the Scottish crown.
History: Maeshowe acoustics.
History: The Brough o' Deerness.
History: Deepdale Stone - new photographs added.
History: Brough o' Birsay section extended with new pictures.
Tradition: The Eternal Battle.
History: The Relics of Saint Magnus.
Tradition: Notes on Weather Words in the Orkney Dialect.
Tradition: Examples of Orkney dialect.
History: Knowes of Trotty Bronze Age cemetery page updated with new site photographs.
History: New photographs added to Dwarfie Stone and Quoyness Cairn pages.
History: Knowes of Trotty Bronze Age cemetery page updated.
History: Photograph of Maeshowe dragon added, along with enhanced version.
History: Two photographic examples added to page detailing Maeshowe's runes.
History: Midhowe broch and Yetnasteen. New pictures.
History: Wideford cairn. New pictures.
History: Comet Stone. New Pictures.
Portfolio: Comet Stone panoramas.
History: Dr John Rae - Orkney's greatest unsung hero.
Portfolio: Standing Stones o' Stenness sunset
Portfolio: The Moon and the Standing Stones o' Stenness added.
History: Additional photographs added to Ring o' Bookan page.
History: Picture of the Pictish symbol stone from the Knowe o' Burrian in Harray added.
History: New photograph added to the Ring o' Bookan page.
History: The Broch o' Borwick section expanded with new photographs.
Portfolio: The Broch o' Borwick.
History: Pictures of the Deepdale Stone. New images added together with a section rewrite.
Portfolio: A Monumental Landscape: images of Orkney's best known archaeological sites.
History: Rewrite and expansion of Skara Brae section has started. New images added to the first three pages so far.
Orkneyjar named as 'Top Site' by Spirit and Sky website.
History: Watchstone and Barnhouse Stone pages updated with new images added.
Tradition: Gyro Night - Papay's forgotten night of the ogress
Folklore: Origins of the selkie-folk: Documented accounts and Finmen sightings.
Images: Sunset at the Standing Stones o' Stenness
History: Photographs of the prone megaliths found by the Stenness loch added to the Building the Stone Circles page.
History: Short page added detailing the five Viking treasure Hoards found in Orkney so far.
History: Taversoe Tuick chambered cairn pages updated. Now includes information on the origin of the site's name and new photographs.
History: The Picts and the Martyrs: Did Vikings Kill the Native Population of Orkney and Shetland. A paper by Brian Smith.
Tradition: Orkney and the Arthurian Legends.
History: Pictish Symbol Stones updated. Details symbols found in Orkney so far.
History: The Earls of Orkney - The Norse Earls and the Angus Line.
Placenames: Is 'the Orkneys' ever right?. Article by Dr Peter Anderson.
History: New panoramic images showing Barnhouse Structure Eight and Two.
History: The Battle of Summerdale.
History: Orphir Round Kirk rewritten with new photographs added.
History: Close up images of Birsay symbol stone designs now online.
History: Standing Stones o' Stenness pages reorganised, with new photographs.
History: New photographs added to pages dealing with the Brough o' Birsay and Broch o' Gurness.