As previously stated info on the hood can be read at http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/orkneyhood.htm it is probably the single most important artifact ever found in Orkney and the extraordinary replica made by Jacqui Wood (of Ice Man fame, Neolithic Cooking Delia Smith, and one of the leading practical reconstructive archaeologists in the World) for the ArtDiscovery Minehowe event of 2002 is on permament display at Tankerness Museum. Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tirabasso" <zorahh@sssnet.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > No, I wish I did. I thought it was amazing to think that it survived all > those years, but then when you think the bog man was so well mummified, then > it's not hard to understand how this piece of cloth might have survived. It > looked like a medium weave of something like wool. It seemed quite finely > done. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > > > > Interesting. do you recall what kind of cloth it was? > > On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 03:31 AM, Tirabasso wrote: > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > > > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:05 PM > > > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > > > > > > > > > > > > Just a brief note.... > > > > > > Parts snipped.... > > > > > > > > >> I ran into a stone wall merely enquiring as to what my relatives in > > >> Orkney would have worn on their bodies in the way of clothing say a > > >> thousand years ago, considering the weather in the winter especially, > > >> and the dampness. > > > > > > Steve, one item of clothing I did see in the museum there in Kirkwall > > > was a > > > cloth hood worn over the whole head witht the face cut out. Sort of a > > > Balaclava looking item. It had been dug from the peat.. It was there > > > for a > > > short visit and was to return to another museum. > > > > > > Pat > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > > word > > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

I cannot help but wonder, if this hood is perhaps "the single most important artifact ever found in Orkney", why one visiting Orkney would have to go all the way to Edinburgh to see it? Is there not housing for such an artifact in Orkney? Such items are often placed in an environmentally secure glass case in which case they could be located anywhere secure it seems. Just a thought. I can't see mucking about in Edinburgh to see this one item, but it certainly is a very interesting piece of history isn't it? Thanks! On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Simon Treasure wrote: > As previously stated info on the hood can be read at > http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/orkneyhood.htm it is probably the > single > most important artifact ever found in Orkney and the extraordinary > replica > made by Jacqui Wood (of Ice Man fame, Neolithic Cooking Delia Smith, > and one > of the leading practical reconstructive archaeologists in the World) > for the > ArtDiscovery > Minehowe event of 2002 is on permament display at Tankerness Museum. > > Simon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tirabasso" <zorahh@sssnet.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:10 PM > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > > >> No, I wish I did. I thought it was amazing to think that it survived >> all >> those years, but then when you think the bog man was so well >> mummified, > then >> it's not hard to understand how this piece of cloth might have >> survived. > It >> looked like a medium weave of something like wool. It seemed quite >> finely >> done. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> >> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:04 PM >> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? >> >> >>> Interesting. do you recall what kind of cloth it was? >>> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 03:31 AM, Tirabasso wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> >>>> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:05 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Just a brief note.... >>>> >>>> Parts snipped.... >>>> >>>> >>>>> I ran into a stone wall merely enquiring as to what my relatives in >>>>> Orkney would have worn on their bodies in the way of clothing say a >>>>> thousand years ago, considering the weather in the winter >>>>> especially, >>>>> and the dampness. >>>> >>>> Steve, one item of clothing I did see in the museum there in >>>> Kirkwall >>>> was a >>>> cloth hood worn over the whole head witht the face cut out. Sort of >>>> a >>>> Balaclava looking item. It had been dug from the peat.. It was there >>>> for a >>>> short visit and was to return to another museum. >>>> >>>> Pat >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >>>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with >>>> the >>>> word >>>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >>> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word >>> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the >> word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >