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15% of ALL Jewellery in our Summer Sale

What a summer this has been! It's not every year we have a summer like this in Orkney, with long light nights and glorious warm weather for weeks now.  We hope you've been enjoying the summer wherever you are, and to celebrate the good weather (and good mood it puts everyone in!) we're offering 15% off ALL of our jewellery! Simply enter the code SUN15 at checkout to take advantage. The discount is live now and ends at midnight, Orkney time, on Tuesday 31st July.

Behind Every Successful Jewellery Designer there's a Cheese and Wine Shop

Ola Gorie established her jewellery business in Kirkwall in 1960.  But her family had already been a weel-kent presence in Orkney for over a hundred years by then...
Ola Gorie graduated from Gray's School of Art as its first jewellery-design graduate in 1959, and started her own business here in Kirkwall the following year.  But the name Gorie was already well known in Orkney... In 1859, a Kirkwall man called James Kirkness opened a wine merchant and grocer's shop in Broad Street, opposite St Magnus Cathedral.  Orkney was in the midst of an agricultural boom, and there was suddenly a demand for fine imported products such as coffee, pasta, Claret and Champagne.  James Kirkness's son John took over the business around the start of the 20th century (he's...

Archaeology in a Day

As you will know if you've been to Orkney, or if you've watched one of Ola's videos - like this one from the summer: Ola at the Ness of Brodgar dig - you'll know that the islands are stuffed with fascinating ancient history.  But did you know that Orkney is also home to a leading research and teaching Archaeology Insitute, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)? Their blog is an invaluable treasure trove of the latest news about Orkney's latest digs, discoveries and debates.  It's also a great place to keep up to speed with the many...

Westray inspirations...

We received a lovely email yesterday, from archaeologist Alexandra 'Lekky' Shepherd, who had been visiting Orkney to attend a conference.  She popped into our shop on Broad Street, The Longship, and enjoyed what she saw very much.  Except for one thing!  We'll let her explain: "I noticed that the little information card for the Westray pendant and ring was wrong. They are not based on the Pierowall spiral stone discovered in 1981 as it says, but on a piece of pottery discovered in the earlier excavations at Links of Noltland in 1980 (some time before the present campaign of digging began). "I...
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