The results of the new research project may help establish that a medieval manuscript once dubbed ‘the most precious object of the western world’ could have been created in Easter Ross.   Announced today, the £2,779 grant from the Society will enable Master Craftsman Thomas Keyes to conduct an experimental archaeology project later this year. Keyes hopes to gain a better understanding of the vellum workshop which was excavated at the monastic site of Portmahomack in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It remains the only example of an early-medieval vellum-working site in Northern Europe and is considered to …