Screenshot of OS 1st ed map of Muckle Skerry. Names include Tenniscourt, Parliament Square, The Kettle
Muckle Skerry has some cracking names
05.03.2026 14:06
👍 13
🔁 2
💬 2
📌 0
Map showing four 'Manitoba' field names in South Ronaldsay, Orkney: 1st Field of Manitoba; 2nd Field of Manitoba; Manitoba - Field with the Water Supply in it; and Old Silage Field - Manitoba.
New Fields of Time post
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-03...
It's on FB too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
01.03.2026 08:59
👍 4
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
Oluf Rygh – Wikipedia
Oluf Rygh nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluf_Rygh not only began that essential work Norske Gaardnavne, but also excavated in 1867 the #Tune #Viking #Ship (being moved to this week), the first of the three famous ships to be excavated. He was the first professor of archaeology in a Scandinavian university.
24.02.2026 10:46
👍 7
🔁 2
💬 1
📌 0
Fantastic! Well done!
25.02.2026 16:13
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Patchwork squares in various stages of completion
The patchwork is going look amazing when it's finished - and massive
24.02.2026 17:58
👍 6
🔁 1
💬 1
📌 1
Facebook page screenshot. Cover photo: three people stitching. Profile photo: a section of green patchwork with stitched field boundaries.
I've just set up a Facebook page for out Fields of Time project. If you want to get in really early, here's the link: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
24.02.2026 17:39
👍 3
🔁 1
💬 1
📌 0
OS 1st ed map showing 'Well'
Field-name survey map showing the same spot annotated 'Whisky Well'
A wee bonus from from a recent batch of field-names is that we now know what this well near Roeberry (South Ronaldsay) - unnamed on the OS - is called
23.02.2026 21:48
👍 12
🔁 1
💬 2
📌 0
Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
20.02.2026 12:42
👍 13
🔁 5
💬 1
📌 0
Front page of The Orcadian's Gaan Oot section with Fields of Time in large green text, showing patchwork in progress and images of folk stitching
We're in The Orcadian!
If you have field-names to share, or ken folk that do, please get in touch: fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
19.02.2026 12:35
👍 11
🔁 6
💬 0
📌 0
And just tidied up the menus on mobile displays
19.02.2026 11:42
👍 5
🔁 1
💬 0
📌 0
Where golden light.
Runs to the sea.
Ettan's Pow.
Today.
#Papay #Orkney #islands
17.02.2026 16:21
👍 21
🔁 2
💬 1
📌 0
What a wonderful project! Great website too - fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net#home
17.02.2026 09:10
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 1
Looking forward to this!
16.02.2026 14:07
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 1
Join us for a new UHI Islands Matter free online seminar titled 'Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore'.
➕ 26/02/26 1.00pm - 2.30pm UK time.
➕ Free
➕ Online, so you can access from anywhere in the world (if you have internet access)
Register: tinyurl.com/bdzd9czu
10.02.2026 16:16
👍 16
🔁 10
💬 0
📌 0
Love a Fulmar... effortless grace.
11.02.2026 18:12
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Balaclava
Sevastapol
Cronstadt
Inkerman
An interesting wee cluster of Crimean War field-names from South Ronaldsay
10.02.2026 20:08
👍 12
🔁 3
💬 2
📌 0
There aren't many serene days on #Papay
But on a calm Autumn day a Grey phalarope, obliging as ever.
Known as a Haf web on Papay.
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Serenity
07.02.2026 11:12
👍 32
🔁 3
💬 1
📌 0
Nice word 😊!
06.02.2026 16:04
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Just one week until UHI Institute for Northern Studies Mapping Identities Conference hosted at UHI Perth and online 10/02/2026. Full programme now confirmed. Still time to register www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
03.02.2026 13:14
👍 7
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 1
A Neolithic winter.
The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January.
A fastness in time, caught.
#Papay #neolithic #archaeology #orkney
04.02.2026 15:23
👍 49
🔁 9
💬 1
📌 0
The Old Kirk and the sea.
Looking South to St Boniface kirk on my first ever visit to Papay, Christmas eve 2013.
An island of light, to come.
#Orkney #Papay #islandlight #Spring
01.02.2026 09:44
👍 22
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
Yay! Well done! What's the cider like?!
28.01.2026 16:11
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Some great place-names too! Courtesy of Marwick: Hassings ON hálsa m. 'neck', for the isthmus joining the Holm to Cairn Head... the route from the island... to an island (at low tide) & Tide o' Hest m. 'stallion' somewhere off the south end there.
24.01.2026 16:08
👍 14
🔁 4
💬 0
📌 0
Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky
22.01.2026 10:54
👍 17
🔁 9
💬 1
📌 0
A bad hair day for a Hair duck.
Red-breasted merganser in a brisk Southerly.
Hair duck, Papay name.
#Papay #Orkney #birdnames
22.01.2026 10:31
👍 25
🔁 5
💬 0
📌 0
Yes... just the 14 jars.. jam-maker's dozen? 🤔
22.01.2026 10:31
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
2026 batch of Seville Orange #Marmalade... done!
22.01.2026 08:29
👍 4
🔁 0
💬 2
📌 0
The Saga of the Earls of Orkney – The Orcadian Bookshop
Special offer on #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney extended to the end of this month! shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/sign...
19.01.2026 19:08
👍 13
🔁 9
💬 0
📌 1
