Why A Celtic Pendant Is So Popular
A Celtic rings is a much prized gift for browsers who are online jewellery shopping. But some of the pendants made in Orkney have much more historical ideas behind the appearance.
The well-known Skara Brae pendant is modelled on visuals found on the walls of this 5000 years old village whose houses now cling to the edges of the windswept sandy shore. Those who built Skara Brae, which was situated further away from the sea when sea levels were lower, were Orkney's first farmers.
Among the list of crops they grew was bere, a basic form of barley which had been common in Britain from Neolithic until Viking times. Images of whole grains of bere were found on pottery in a burial place in Unstan, Orkney, dating back to 3000BC. It is regarded as the earliest cultivated grain in the world. As recently as 1769 more bere than barley was grown in Scotland and it is still cultivated in Orkney with a small amount in Shetland and Caithness in the far north of mainland Scotland. In Norway bere, known as bygg is still grown where it might be called korn, as it was in Orkney.
There were lots of rites and rituals surrounding planting seed and the cropping of bere. Only those people thought to possess the sowing hand were allowed to sow. A straw bitch or bikko was created from the last sheaf that was exhibited at the harvest home or muckle supper and later kept high up in the barn. In Norway this practice would shield the building from trolls
Nowadays no ceilidh, dance or harvest home would be complete with no serving of bannocks - griddle or girdle cakes - created from bere. These are eaten with a slice 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 and other farmers. The millers have just completed shovelling and blow drying 15 tons of bere. The process will continue to grind this into beremeal.
In Skara Brae the farmers of long ago would employ a quernstone to grind the grain by hand. And their necklaces were not the same as the Celtic pendant. These were created from bone pins and beads in the New Stone Age, not gold or silver.
A Celtic rings is a much prized gift for browsers who are online jewellery shopping. But some of the pendants made in Orkney have much more historical ideas behind the appearance.
The well-known Skara Brae pendant is modelled on visuals found on the walls of this 5000 years old village whose houses now cling to the edges of the windswept sandy shore. Those who built Skara Brae, which was situated further away from the sea when sea levels were lower, were Orkney's first farmers.
Among the list of crops they grew was bere, a basic form of barley which had been common in Britain from Neolithic until Viking times. Images of whole grains of bere were found on pottery in a burial place in Unstan, Orkney, dating back to 3000BC. It is regarded as the earliest cultivated grain in the world. As recently as 1769 more bere than barley was grown in Scotland and it is still cultivated in Orkney with a small amount in Shetland and Caithness in the far north of mainland Scotland. In Norway bere, known as bygg is still grown where it might be called korn, as it was in Orkney.
There were lots of rites and rituals surrounding planting seed and the cropping of bere. Only those people thought to possess the sowing hand were allowed to sow. A straw bitch or bikko was created from the last sheaf that was exhibited at the harvest home or muckle supper and later kept high up in the barn. In Norway this practice would shield the building from trolls
Nowadays no ceilidh, dance or harvest home would be complete with no serving of bannocks - griddle or girdle cakes - created from bere. These are eaten with a slice 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 and other farmers. The millers have just completed shovelling and blow drying 15 tons of bere. The process will continue to grind this into beremeal.
In Skara Brae the farmers of long ago would employ a quernstone to grind the grain by hand. And their necklaces were not the same as the Celtic pendant. These were created from bone pins and beads in the New Stone Age, not gold or silver.
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