Scottish Islands Explorer - November-December 2016
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER 21 The Cladh Hallan Mummies ...
22 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 The First Evidence In other words, they had been deliberately mummified bef ...
different places where it is practised. In Ancient Egypt, for example, mummification was thought to aid the deceased to live wel ...
What a difference, say, seven decades have meant to clothes, shoes and kit becoming lighter and more flexible. Just weigh (or we ...
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER 25 Page Index Header READERS’ OPPORTUNITIES Further Information Edited by Jam ...
little terns 26 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 Michael Steciukshares his images from a photographic assignmen ...
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28 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 N othing is more magical than seeing your first puffin flapping about and l ...
‘Wherever you go on the island, birds are never far away.’ ...
Can Collapse ings calm down once you reach the visitors’ centre, only a short stroll away from the jetty. ere are a number of ...
e fire was fuelled by coal and worked well, until the light went out for two whole days in It turns out the resident lighthous ...
‘Archaeologists exposed the building with its stone trough, water system and hearth.’ ...
Ages of Man and Tomb of Eagles Ages of Man and Tomb of Eagles T he leaflet, which showed the head of an eagle alongside a skull ...
Ages of Man and Tomb of Eagles Page 32 Top: The 3000-year-old Liddle Mound Bronze Age site. Below: The original stones of the to ...
‘Morvern is an enormous, inverted triangle cut off from the Western Highlands.’ Morvern James Petresees it more as an island W h ...
36 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 Page 35: Kinlochline Above: The Wishing Stone. Opposite: The CalMac ferry a ...
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER 37 Morvern Remoteness and Emptiness e depopulation brought about in the age ...
38 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 B etween the islands of Jura and Scarba, lies a mysterious maelstrom of sea ...
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORER 39 The Corryvreckan ‘Local fishermen refer to the tempestuous waters as the C ...
40 SCOTTISH ISLANDS EXPLORERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 The Corryvreckan Confusion of Flows With so many opposing forces converging ...
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