Old Scatness is an archeological site on Scat Ness, near the village of Scatness, in the parish of Dunrossness in the south end of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, near Sumburgh Airport. It consists of medieval, Viking, Pictish, and Iron Age remains and has been a settlement for thousands of years, each new generation adding buildings, and levelling off old ones. Among the discoveries is an Iron Age broch, the Ness of Burgi fort.
OldScatness is an archeological site on Scat Ness, near the village of Scatness, in the parish of Dunrossness in the south end of Mainland, Shetland,...
airport. Scatness is in the parish of Dunrossness. Scatness includes the housing estates of Sanblister Place and Colonial Place. On the east side of Scat Ness...
of them from Scotland. The application for consideration of "Mousa, OldScatness and Jarlshof: The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland" as a future World Heritage...
September. In 2010 "The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland" including Mousa, OldScatness and Jarlshof was added to those seeking to be on the "tentative list"...
centuries BC and AD. A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for OldScatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to between 390 and 200 BC...
vocal jazz, scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all. In scat singing, the...
addition to Mousa there are significant ruins at Clickimin, Culswick, OldScatness and West Burrafirth, although their origin and purpose is a matter of...
September 2009. Shetland Amenity Trust purchased the land upon which OldScatness sits in 1995 to allow excavation to take place, and to allow public access...
in 2015 are: The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland including Mousa Broch, OldScatness and Jarlshof is a cultural candidate. The Flow Country of Caithness and...
addition to Mousa there are significant broch ruins at Clickimin, Culswick, OldScatness and West Burrafirth, although their origin and purpose is a matter of...
similar mezzanine floors dating to the Middle Iron Age was found at the OldScatness site in Shetland, supporting this possibility. Inside Structure 1 are...
prominent sire. Scat Daddy was sired by Johannesburg, who was a champion in both the United States and Europe as a two-year-old. Scat Daddy's dam was...
in oldScatness, part of Virkie. Jarlshof OldScatness Pool of Virkie Sumburgh Airport Sumburgh Head Virkie Marina Ness Boating Club "OldScatness, Virkie...
July 2016 Island of St Helena, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July 2016 Mousa, OldScatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July...
expedition, the Hebrides and Mann and all rights that the Norwegian crown "had of old therein" were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266...
Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof OldScatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun Carloway Rubha an Dùnain...
population and their sheep were evacuated. The name of the island is from Old Norse Seyðoy, meaning "Island of Sheep". The breed was introduced to and...
the Old English or Old Norse word for a spring or stream. Less mystery surrounds the suffixes –burh/–werc, -dun, -ford and –feld, which are the Old English...
promontory fort in the OldScatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south...
peninsula and further south is the rock pillar of the Old Man of Storr. The view of the Quiraing and the Old Man of Storr is one of the most iconic in all of...
and hops. The other types are Simmer Dim, Sjolmet Stout, White Wife, OldScatness and the newest one Island Bere brewed from bere barley. The brewery closed...
Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/; Scots: Orkney; Old Norse: Orkneyjar; Norn: Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago...
in 1914. The island has a post office. The name "Foula" derives from the Old Norse Fugley, meaning "bird island"; compare Fugloy, an island in the Faroes...
the south lie Soray/Soraigh (Old Norse Suðurey, south island or Sauðurey, sheep's island) and Sgeir Tomain (probably from Old Norse sker, skerry, shallow...
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