Zenith of Iron Age Shetland information

The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three sites in Shetland that have applied to be on the Scottish "Tentative List" of possible nominations...

This is a list of Shetland islands in Scotland. The Shetland archipelago is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of mainland Scotland and the capital Lerwick...

example of these distinctive round towers is the Broch of Mousa. In 2011, a site known as "the Crucible of Iron Age Shetland", which includes the Broch of Mousa...

of the late medieval walls can be seen, built over Iron Age remains, including a tunnel leading to a circular building or broch. The thick walls of the...

site, "The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland", including Broch of Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof, joined the UKs "Tentative List" of World Heritage Sites...

located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom's most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since the turn of the 20th...

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mesolithic hut at Crieth Dubh on the northwest coast of the island. Later, Bronze Age and Iron Age inhabitants built brochs at Dun Nan Gall and An Sean...

as an Iron Age broch; the remains of a similarly aged broch is located on the east of Barra itself. Remains of Bronze Age burials and Iron Age roundhouses...

knives typical of the period from 1000 to 800 BC have been discovered there, together with significant metalworking debris. Early Iron Age hut circles are...

impressive Iron Age structures of Orkney are the ruins of later round towers called "brochs" and their associated settlements such as the Broch of Burroughston...

island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland. Bressay lies due south of Whalsay, west of the Isle of Noss, and north of Mousa. With an area of 11 square...

period of Norse settlement. Dun Ringill is a ruined Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird Peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle Ages and may...

on 4 July 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2011. Reynolds, Peter J (1979). Iron-Age farm The Butser Experiment. British Museum. pp. 53–54. ISBN 0-7141-8014-9...

continuously until the early 20th century. Langskaill appears to have been an Iron Age settlement in use from 500 BC to the 14th century. An underground chamber...

Hunters. During the Middle Ages, they also may have been called the Seven Haley (Holy) Isles. Martin Martin (1703) lists a number of unusual customs associated...

largest of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland. Whalsay, also known as "The Bonnie Isle", is a peat-covered island in the Shetland Islands....

Unst (/ˈʌnst/; Norn: Ønst) is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the...

islands of the Hebridean chain, is known as the Little Minch. It opens into the Sea of the Hebrides. The Minch and Little Minch form part of the Inner...

040 sq ft) Iron Age fort occupies a prominent crag and has commanding views of the surrounding landscape. The name's origin is probably a mixture of Gaelic...

the purpose of which is to keep the seaweed-eating local sheep off the arable land. A well-preserved Iron Age broch, known as the Broch of Burrian, is...

Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is connected by bridge to East Burra. With an area of 743 hectares...

of music, folk, and poetry festivals, as well as walking trails and new cycling routes. There are some remote Bronze Age stone circles, an Iron Age fortified...

located in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It lies west of Mull (to which it is linked by a beach at low tide) and southeast of Iona. The island receives...

Hebrides have been successively occupied by speakers of several languages since the Iron Age, many of its islands’ names have more than one possible meaning...

in the whole of northern and western Europe up to the Iron Age. A local variety of Dunface was kept on the two main St Kilda islands of Boreray and Hirta...