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Updates from the Fields of Time project.
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1 March 2026
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba
There is a class of field-names which use transferred names to express something about the land to which they refer. These are different to commemorative names, like the Crimean War ones discussed in a previous post, which tend to have no relationship to the characteristics of the fields they refer...
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27 February 2026
Fields of Time in The Orcadian
Last week, The Orcadian ran a great piece on the project. Many thanks to Tom Groat for his write-up and to Ken Amer for his photos. You can click to embiggen the images below.
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26 February 2026
Lower Cara and the Crimean War
Included in the latest update to the digital map are field-names from Lower Cara. Four of those are names of engagements in the Crimean War: Balaclava, Sevastopol, Cronstadt, and Inkerman. The fields take their names from houses which were recorded on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey, published in...
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25 February 2026
Whisky Well
Fields aren’t the only features whose names don’t appear on the Ordnance Survey map. This well near Roeberry was first recorded in 1879 but its name only surfaced when we received a set of field-names from Hoxa.
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25 February 2026
Fields of Time on Facebook
We launched a Facebook page for the project yesterday and have just passed 100 followers. We’ll be posting regular updates there as well as links to longer posts which will live here.
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18 February 2026
Fields of Time on Radio Orkney
On Monday, Sheena and I spoke to Radio Orkney about the project. You can listen here. Thanks to Stewart and Rob for having us on. There’s a shorter clip of us talking on Tuesday’s Around Orkney which you can listen to here.
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