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Historic Attractions in Shetland Islands
Subcategory: Historic Sites & Monuments
Virkie, Mainland, Shetland, ZE3 9JN
This extraordinarily important site spanning 3000 years is a complex of ancient settlements within a very small area.
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Sandwick, Shetland, ZE2
The finest broch in Scotland it has survived for two thousand years virtually intact. Visitors can still climb to the top...
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Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK
Steatite or soapstone is soft and easy to carve into bowls. From prehistoric times onwards vessels of various sizes or...
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Lerwick, Shetland, ZE2
A good example of a broch tower with associated secondary buildings of Iron Age date.
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Shetland, ZE2
During excavations here in the 1950's of a medieval church and pre-Christian settlement, an amazing hoard of Pictish...
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Stanydale, Shetland, ZE2
This amazing building, perhaps the hall of a chieftain, is at the centre of group of smaller houses dating from around...
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Mainland, Shetland, ZE2
This rocky promontory is fortified by two rock cut ditches, a massive rampart and an extraordinary stone 'blockhouse'. The...
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| 1 | Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement (HS) | Virkie, Mainland, Shetland, ZE3 9JN | |
| 2 | Broch of Mousa (HS) | Sandwick, Shetland, ZE2 | |
| 3 | Catpund Steatite Quarries | Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK | |
| 4 | Clickimin Broch (HS) | Lerwick, Shetland, ZE2 | |
| 5 | St Ninian's Isle | Shetland, ZE2 | |
| 6 | Stanydale 'Temple' (HS) | Stanydale, Shetland, ZE2 | |
| 7 | Ness of Burgi Fort (HS) | Mainland, Shetland, ZE2 |
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