Why A Celtic Pendant Is So Popular
A Celtic rings is a much sought-after gift for browsers who are online jewellery shopping. However, some of the pendants made in Orkney have much more ancient ideas behind the look.
The well-known Skara Brae pendant is modelled on designs discovered on the walls of this 5000 year old village whose houses now hang on to the edges of the windswept sandy shore. The people who built Skara Brae, which was located further inland when sea levels were lower, were Orkney's first farmers.
Among the many crops they grew was bere, a basic form of barley which had been common in the UK from Neolithic until Viking times. Impressions of whole grains of bere were found on pottery in a tomb in Unstan, Orkney, dating back to 3000BC. It is considered to be the earliest harvested grain anywhere. As recently as 1769 more bere than barley was grown in Scotland and it is still grown in Orkney with a little bit in Shetland and Caithness in the far north of mainland Scotland. In Norway bere, referred to as bygg is still harvested where it might be called korn, as it is in Orkney.
There were quite a few rites and rituals surrounding planting seed and the growing of bere. Just those people thought to possess the sowing hand were permitted to sow. A straw bitch or bikko was created from the last sheaf that was viewable at the harvest home or muckle supper and then kept up high in the barn. In Norway this tradition would safeguard the structure from trolls
In these modern times no ceilidh, dance or harvest home would be complete with no serving of bannocks - griddle or girdle cakes - made from bere. These are generally eaten with a portion of farmhouse cheese.
While online jewellery shopping for a Celtic pendant or Skara Brae earrings, pendant or cufflinks, spare a thought for the millers at Barony Mills in Birsay, Orkney. This wonderful Nineteenth century watermill still crushes bere grown on land owned by the mill's trust along with farmers. The millers have just carried out shovelling and blow drying 15 tons of bere. The work will continue to mill this into beremeal.
In Skara Brae the farmers of ancient times would work with a quernstone to grind the grain by hand. And their necklaces were not the same as the Celtic pendant. They were made from bone pins and beads in the New Stone Age, not gold or silver.
A Celtic rings is a much sought-after gift for browsers who are online jewellery shopping. However, some of the pendants made in Orkney have much more ancient ideas behind the look.
The well-known Skara Brae pendant is modelled on designs discovered on the walls of this 5000 year old village whose houses now hang on to the edges of the windswept sandy shore. The people who built Skara Brae, which was located further inland when sea levels were lower, were Orkney's first farmers.
Among the many crops they grew was bere, a basic form of barley which had been common in the UK from Neolithic until Viking times. Impressions of whole grains of bere were found on pottery in a tomb in Unstan, Orkney, dating back to 3000BC. It is considered to be the earliest harvested grain anywhere. As recently as 1769 more bere than barley was grown in Scotland and it is still grown in Orkney with a little bit in Shetland and Caithness in the far north of mainland Scotland. In Norway bere, referred to as bygg is still harvested where it might be called korn, as it is in Orkney.
There were quite a few rites and rituals surrounding planting seed and the growing of bere. Just those people thought to possess the sowing hand were permitted to sow. A straw bitch or bikko was created from the last sheaf that was viewable at the harvest home or muckle supper and then kept up high in the barn. In Norway this tradition would safeguard the structure from trolls
In these modern times no ceilidh, dance or harvest home would be complete with no serving of bannocks - griddle or girdle cakes - made from bere. These are generally eaten with a portion of farmhouse cheese.
While online jewellery shopping for a Celtic pendant or Skara Brae earrings, pendant or cufflinks, spare a thought for the millers at Barony Mills in Birsay, Orkney. This wonderful Nineteenth century watermill still crushes bere grown on land owned by the mill's trust along with farmers. The millers have just carried out shovelling and blow drying 15 tons of bere. The work will continue to mill this into beremeal.
In Skara Brae the farmers of ancient times would work with a quernstone to grind the grain by hand. And their necklaces were not the same as the Celtic pendant. They were made from bone pins and beads in the New Stone Age, not gold or silver.
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