Scotland · Region
26 places in Shetland Islands, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
The only broch - a drystone tower, round and hollow-walled, built in the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came - still standing nearly…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the seventeenth century AD.
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
On a small promontory jutting into the Loch of Clickimin, three-quarters of a mile south-west of Lerwick on the road to Sumburgh, stands one of the…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
Very little survives above ground of the broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland) that once stood on a shoulder of…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
A massive triangular lintel stone still spans the entrance of the Broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland) of Culs…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
The Broch of West Burrafirth stands on a low rocky islet known as the Holm of Hebrista, within West Burra Firth on the west side of Shetland Mainla…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
On the tip of the headland of Burra Ness, on the east coast of Yell in Shetland, the drystone wall of a round tower still rises over four metres on…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Along the bank of a burn on Shetland Mainland, the rock face at Catpund still carries the scars of centuries of quarrying, row upon row of hollows…
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
A stone wall over four kilometres long once ran the full north-south length of Fetlar, splitting the Shetland island into two almost equal halves.…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Thirty-eight stones once ringed this patch of ground on Fetlar, Shetland; twenty-two of them still stand fixed in the soil, describing a circle ele…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shetland Islands
The most northerly fortified house in the British Isles: burnt by privateers in 1627 after less than thirty years of use, and its top floor later b…
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
A narrow finger of land reaches south from Scat Ness into the sea at the southern extremity of Shetland Mainland, and near its end, on a rocky spur…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Shetland Islands
Carved on a single face of stone left otherwise plain, the Papil Stone rises to a large, long-stemmed cross shaped like a fan, its shaft crowded be…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
On a low rise in the parish of Nesting in north-east Whalsay, two burial monuments stand roughly 140 metres north-west of the settlement mound at B…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Above the peat near Mangaster, in Northmavine on Shetland's Mainland, a low mound of large boulders rises about 1.5 metres from the surrounding gro…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shetland Islands
Built by unpaid workers summoned from the parishes of Shetland, for an earl who was executed for misrule eight years after it was finished.
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
Snabrough Broch sits on a short, low promontory on the shore of Snabrough Loch, on the island of Unst in Shetland, its ruined wall now measuring ar…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Roughly a hundred yards southeast of Benie Hoose, close to the cliff edge at Yoxie Geo on Whalsay's northeastern coast, a partly ruined Neolithic (…
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
Ancient place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Benie Hoose lies in Nesting parish, towards the north-east of Whalsay, laid out in the unusual form of a figure of eight rather than the single rou…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
Clumlie Broch stands on a low rise amid flat arable ground in Dunrossness, on southern Shetland Mainland, roughly eight kilometres north of Sumburg…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
shetland-islands
Haaf fishermen lit their böds with oil lamps made from whelk shells. One from here is in the Shetland Museum, collected by a man who argued about w…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Shetland Islands
The Lunnasting stone is a slab of slate, 44 inches (1.1 m) long, about 13 inches (0.33 m) wide and just an inch (2.5 cm) thick, carrying an ogham i…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
Construction of a perimeter road for Sumburgh Airport in the late 1970s sliced into a grassy mound at the southern tip of Shetland Mainland, exposi…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
At 450 metres, Ronas Hill is the highest point in the Shetland Islands, and its summit is crowned not just by a trig point but by a Neolithic chamb…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
St Ninian's Isle sits off the south-western coast of Shetland Mainland, joined to it by a 500-metre tombolo, the largest in the United Kingdom. Loc…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
In a field roughly 21 miles by road northwest of Lerwick, on Mainland Shetland, a large walled enclosure is all that survives of a building once ro…
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