Time Capsule
glass bottle, newspaper
early C20th Iron Brew bottle, screw top, returnable
BARR - FALKIRK
Iron Brew nowadays Irn Bru is a carbonated syrupy drink produced by Barrs since the turn of the C20th and still very popular in Scotland.
the bottle contains rolled up pages from the Orkney Herald & Weekly Advertiser for the Northern Counties, August 2, 1916, Price one penny; with which it is incorporated the Northman
found by the Scobie family when dismantling a blocked up doorway in a byre, Rusness, Sanday
The newspaper reports zeppelin raids over the Thames estuary and dedicates a whole page to developments at the Battle of the Somme: "The Allied offensive is only as yet at it's opening stage but the German defences are crumpling up before their deadly blows".
