Orkney/Sanday
Summer break to this amazing place...
Sanday Flight
Sanday Airport to Start Point via remains of the WWI German destroyer B98 in Lopness Nay (2.31) and the WW2 radar stations at Lettan
Sanday in Focus excerpt
Sanday in Focus is a new DVD giving a glimpse of the life and landscape on the Orkney island of Sanday. Aimed at tourists, visitors and potential residents, this is a 5 minute extract from the full version. To order your full copy of the DVD, please visit the Sanday website at sanday.co.uk
Sanday Interview 2
With Myra, at Sanday Heritage Centre on Sanday in Orkney, Scotland, from manonabeach.
A Year in Sanday
Some events through the year, 2011, in Sanday, Orkney. Accompanied by the Sanday Fiddle Club.
Sanday, Orkney - Summer 2018
A visit to Sanday and the resulting artwork inspired by this north Orkney island.
Ferry leaving island of Sanday for Kirkwall Orkney Scotland UK
Filmed 4.7.18
End of Storm Caroline, Sanday, Orkney
Day after Storm Caroline at Pool Bay, Sanday, Orkney. High waves coming in.
Sanday Football
indoor football in sanday.... go team!!
Our house on Sanday
A short walk around the paddock's and house.
Efforts to restore earthquake damaged temple
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A British architect is helping to restore a famed temple in Nepal that was badly damaged in the 2015 earthquake.
Changu Narayan temple is a World Heritage Site that is revered as one of the oldest Hindu temples in the region.
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When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal in 2015, villagers in Changu Narayan ran up the steep rocky path that cuts through their town to their renowned temple.
Seeing the piles of rubble, many figured their lives were over.
Less than two years later, the community is cleaning up their World Heritage Site themselves, and one of the world's leading architects, John Sanday has taken on the recovery as his pet project.
The April 2015 quake that killed 9,000 people in Nepal also damaged details in Changu Narayan's wood, stone and metal.
A sharp aftershock one day later twisted the entire structure, knocking piles of bricks out of the walls, filling the courtyard.
The reconstruction of this temple will make me very happy, says Gyan Bahadel, 61, a handicraft sell who is also one of many villagers who share responsibility for the temple's upkeep.
Believed to be the oldest Hindu place of worship in the country, its wooden walls are intricately carved with hundreds of deities.
The 5th Century temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu, who locals say appeared there once. His image, in about a dozen incarnations, is carved into struts that hold up the roof.
Stone lions with eagle heads guard the doors. Inside has long been a mystery. Only priests enter the two tiered pagoda, and they don't explore.
Anish Bhatta's family has been living and leading worship at the temple for 10 generations - some 325 years.
The temple is very important because it explains about the development of the human civilization of the Kathmandu Valley, Bhatta says.
Today the temple is guarded by military police, and propped up with questionable temporary beams.
British architect John Sanday, who led the World Monuments Fund restoration of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, fell in love with the place decades ago.
After the earthquake, he came up the Changu path with trepidation.
Sanday noticed wooden supports exposed by the missing brick. He saw what looked like a bedrock foundation.
He decided that of the 600 historical temples, monuments and palaces damaged by the earthquake in Nepal, this one would be his project.
It is, perhaps the most remote and undamaged (World Heritage Sites) in fact, from development, Sanday says.
But what really drew him to step in as technical adviser were the people of this village.
Among tourists and pilgrims, Changu Narayan's residents pray there at dusk, kneel at the deities, bow to the gods, offer alms to the priests who stand duty at the door.
Changu village is a 30-minute drive from downtown Kathmandu. Three people died and 100 homes were damaged during the earthquake.
Like families in the city 8 miles (5 kilometres) away, the Changu community grieved, cried and cleaned up rubble.
Now Sanday says their dedication is his inspiration. He will not allow their intangible culture to disappear with the damaged building.
Changu is particularly important because it contains also an amazing collection of 6th Century Licchavi sculptures, which are scattered around the temple, they each have their own little shrines. These are worshipped almost on a daily basis and are priceless, he says.
Conserving an ancient building means solving a series of incredibly complicated puzzles. Rotted or mice-chewed timbers must be replaced.
An unstable and stretched government bureaucracy must remain in charge. And there's $300,000 to raise.
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Sanday Light Railway' Orkney Isles Part 4. The UK'S MOST NORTHERLY PASSENGER CARRYING RAILWAY. RIP
Part 3 of A RIDE BEHIND LOCOMOTIVE 'MOLLY', ( A TINKERBELL NG LOCO) From the new railway extension to the carpark & 'SANDAY CENTRAL' 2006. Nine years toil with full planning permission and support from the Orkney Islands Council before their fallout with Master of The Queens Music and caught in the middle as island Registrar. ( Don't believe what you read in the papers at the time.) The only casuality was this wonderful railway that had had over 26,000 visitors from all over the world in nine years of existence. RIP SLR.
Excavation at Tresness Stalled Cairn, Sanday, Orkney
Professor Vicki Cummings University of Central Lancashire talks about the archaeology excavation of the early Neolithic Stalled Cairn at Tresness on the island of Sanday, Orkney. In order to prevent the loss of valuable archaeological evidence the chamber of this tomb is being excavated as a collaboration between Prof Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancashire), Profs Jane Downes and Colin Richards (Archaeological Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands) and Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark (National Museums Scotland).
For more information on the tomb see Canmore: and a 3D model of the site
3D model of burnt mound at Meur, Sanday
Flythough of 3D model built with photos taken from a pole. This burnt mound was in the process of being excavated and relocated by the local community to the heritage centre in nearby Lady village. The project was coordinated by the Scotland's Coastal Heritage At Risk Project,
Discovering the Bradford Kaims - Neolithic Landscapes & Burntmounds
Paul Gething, the director at the Bradford Kaims, discusses the discovery of the site and the possible cultural significance of this Neolithic landscape. A number of overlapping burnt mounds at the site suggest a possible production area.
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1,000-year-old Viking boat grave unearthed in Norway
A1,000-year-old Viking boat grave measuring more than 13 feet (4 metres) has been unearthed in Norway with bones and sheet bronze still inside.The tomb was found during excavations beneath the market square of the Norwegian city of Trondheim.While none of the vessel's wood remains, preserved lumps of rust and nails indicate a boat was buried at the site between the 7th and 10th centuries AD.Ships were a Viking's most prized possession, and if a high-born Viking did not die at sea he would be buried in a ship on land.The vessels used were real ships rather than models, and corpses were often laid to rest with a mixture of weapons, pottery, and drinking horns.Ship burials had important religious meaning for the Norse people, and cremation was a key part of the holy ceremony.Those buried in ships or boats were almost exclusively elite warriors and chiefs.Ships were a Viking's most prized possession, and if a high-born clansman did not die at sea he would be buried in a ship on land, often with weapons and pottery.The newly uncovered grave, which pointed north to south, was found with two long bones inside.Like the boat, these bones were oriented north to south, and experts will now perform DNA analyses to confirm that they are human.Other finds included a small piece of sheet bronze propped against one of the bones, as well as what are likely personal items from the grave.The boat-shaped cavity and its contents was uncovered last week by archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), based in Oslo.In a pothole dug through the middle of the boat, the team found a piece of a spoon.'We also found a key to a small box in the grave,' team member Julian Cadamarteri told Norwegian daily Adresseavisen.'If it originates from the grave, it [the site] is likely to date from anywhere between the 600s and the 900s.'The location of the burial, away from Trondheim's modern harbour and the fjord, suggests the grave dates from the late Iron Age or early Viking Age.There was likely a burial mound over the boat and grave, said NIKU’s Dr Knut Paasche, a specialist in ancient boats.He said the boat type is similar to an Åfjord boat, which were common along the Trøndelag coast at the time.This type of boat was relatively flat at the bottom to help it traverse the shallow waters of the nearby river Nidelven.The vessels used in Viking burials were real ships rather than models, and corpses were often laid to rest with a mixture of weapons, pottery, and drinking horns.Ship burials had important religious meaning for the Norse people, and cremation was a key part of the holy ceremony.Those buried in ships or boats were almost exclusively elite warriors and chiefs.
The Story of Vikings
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Catasand Bronze Age Site
Video showing the location of the recently discovered large Bronze Age settlement site on Sanday, Orkney. See the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute BLOG for more information at
Light & Life Orkney Conference Promo
Teamwork by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ( (Accessed 23/11/2018, work modified)
The Mysterious Burnt Mounds of the British Isles
The Mysterious Burnt Mounds of the British Isles.
Thousands of fulacht fiadh troughs can be found throughout Ireland and the UK. But what were they used for? Photo: David HawgoodFulacht fiadh at Irish National Heritage Park They cover Britain and Ireland (6,000 in Ireland alone), and although people have been living around them since the Bronze Age, no one can say for certain…
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