The Heugh

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The Heugh was the site of one of the earliest chapels on the island, located on the Eastern tip near Osborne’s Fort at Steel End10. However, it is the fort, constructed around 1671, around which this scene is based. The fort was mostly used to defend the bay from Dutch raiders, so I decided to incorporate a traditional tune from that period likely to have been in the repertoire of both the English and the Dutch. The tune ‘Daphne’ appears in the Dutch recorder manuscript ‘Der Fluyten Lust-Hof' (First Edition), published between 1644 and 165611, as well as in ‘The English Dancing Master’ (First Edition) with editions published from 1651 all the way up to 172812. The idea for the scene was to have the solo recorder tune (played by Rhodri Gibbon) out at sea, playing the version from ‘Der Fluyten Lust-Hof' that they likely learned in their childhood, only for the melody to be practically identical to the version English soldiers manning the fort would have heard in their own childhood. In this scene Cuddy Ducks can be heard from the waters below, as well as Pink Footed Geese overhead and Northern Lapwings all around.

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Lindisfarne - Places Past and Present: Site Specific Composition for Heritage Sites

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The Heugh

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