Items relating to Chain Mail found at Knowe of Samilands, North Ronaldsay

• Reference:GB 241 D1/849
• Dates of Creation:1958-1999
• Physical Description:
  7 items Mixed

• Scope and Content

  1. Cover letter from Mrs MacMillan, 26 Jul /2003

  2. Postcard from W F Cormack to Mrs MacMillan, 3 Sep 1999

  3. Copy of original notes on the discovery made by Mrs MacMillan, 16 Aug 1958

  4. Letter from Mrs Daphne H Lorimer to Mrs MacMillan, 25 Apr 1998

  5. Letter from W F Cormack to Mrs MacMillan, 16 Jun 1999

  6. Letter from W F Cormack to Mrs MacMillan concerning chain mail, Cormack's correspondence with David Caldwell of the National Museum and a typescript of a telephone interview about the chain mail with J Cutt of Gerbo, North Ronaldsay, 29 Jul 1999

  7. Article 'The Iron Mail from Wyre, Orkney' by W F Cormack, 1989.

  Knowes of Samiland Orkney Sites and Monuments reference number OR190

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