The Crowdfunder goes live on March 1st for 6 weeks and ends  on 12th April. The QR code takes to where you can donate. The South Ronaldsay & Burray Development Trust is undertaking a unique project to purchase the Tomb of the Eagles as a community buyout which is a first in Scotland for a scheduled monument. This will secure the reopening of the site which has been closed for over four years as result initially of the pandemic and then the Simison family owning and running the site and visitor’s centre retiring.

Research by Archaeology Institute PhD student Jenny Murray suggests the wooden box said to have contained the remains of St Magnus is contemporary with the martyrdom of the 12th century earl.