Scotland · Region
26 places in Shetland Islands, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Fortified place · Iron Age
Shetland Islands
The broch is thought to have been built around c. 300 BC, during the later Scottish Iron Age, as one of more than 500 brochs raised across Scotland.
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the 17th century AD — Bronze Age o…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shetland Islands
As the most northerly fortified residence in the British Isles, Muness marks the furthest reach of late sixteenth-century Scottish tower-house buil…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shetland Islands
It is the imposing tower-house of Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, whose harsh rule over Shetland ended on the scaffold, and it served as the m…
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