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Giant's Stones Row (Shetland)
Date Added: 10th Feb 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Giant's Stones Row (Shetland) submitted by Tom_Bullock on 28th Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Log Text: This is not a stone row. It is rubble boundary bank which incorporates the Giant's Stones.
Giant's Stones (Shetland)
Date Added: 10th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Giant's Stones (Shetland) submitted by Tom_Bullock on 28th Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Log Text: Parking is available at HU 24245 80576. The Giants’ Stones stand nearby.
Yahaarwell
Date Added: 10th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Yahaarwell submitted by Anne T on 3rd Aug 2017. The Yahaarwell Standing Stone, submitted on behalf of Spike of Chesterfield. Photograph taken 02/10/2011. Spike describes the stone as being 'a walk up an incline; follow the sheep paths, the stone is so visible. There was a pool of water at the base of the stone, west side.'
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Log Text: Parking available at HU 3047 4321. Ground conditions are rather damp.
Stanydale
Date Added: 9th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Stanydale submitted by h_fenton on 12th Jan 2015. Stanydale 'Temple', Vertical Kite Aerial Photograph. Scale: 1 metre.
23 September 2014
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Log Text: Limited car parking is available on the road side. The route to the site is well marked with black and white poles.
St Ninian's Isle
Date Added: 9th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
St Ninian's Isle submitted by pab on 17th Nov 2006. St Ninian’s Isle lies off the western coast of the most southerly part of the Shetland Mainland. It is linked to the mainland by a beautiful stretch of sand (called a tombola), which locals advised us would only be covered by the sea in extreme storms every decade or so. It is an absolutely wonderful place.
St Ninian’s Isle was the site of a valuable find of a hoard of ecclesiastical silver-ware in July 1958, and it was also found to have been in use through the Iron and Bronze ages.
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Log Text: The site is not sign-posted from the adjacent footpath.
Scord of Brouster
Date Added: 9th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Scord of Brouster submitted by jeffrep on 28th Jul 2010. Ruins of House 2, Largest Dwelling at Scord of Brouster Ancient Settlement, West Mainland, Shetland, Scotland
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Log Text: Make your way up to the information board at the top of the hill first. From this point you get an overall view of the site.
Papil Pictish Stone Cross Slab
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Papil Pictish Stone Cross Slab submitted by jeffrep on 9th Aug 2010. Papil Pictish Symbol Stone Replica, West Burra, Shetland, Scotland
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Log Text: The perfect condition relates to the original which is now far away in Edinburgh. The replica unlike some others looks like a replica which is disappointing.
Sumburgh Airport Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Sumburgh Airport Broch submitted by cosmic on 24th Jan 2005. Hearth reconstruction. Photo taken in 1998.
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Log Text: Still feels like a work in progress, but well worth a visit.
Mousa Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mousa Broch submitted by h_fenton on 18th Dec 2010. Mousa Broch, Photographed August 1967.
U. Fenton
Uploaded with my mothers permission
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Loch of Houlland
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Loch of Houlland submitted by pab on 28th Oct 2006. The broch at the Loch of Houlland is one of about 120 around the coast of Shetland. It is very close to the lighthouse at Echaness, which must have some of the most spectacular sea scenery in the UK. It would be hard to improve on the description given in the very informative guide I used in Shetland (written by Peter Guy: Walking the Coastline of Shetland, ISBN:1904746179) - "The broch dominates a small promontory which juts out from the NW into the loch. It is an impressive ruin with walls on ...
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Levenwick Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Levenwick Broch submitted by SolarMegalith on 2nd Jul 2015. Interior of Levenwick broch - view from the north (photo taken on June 2015).
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Log Text: Walked here from the campsite at Levenwick. Loads of wildlife and archaeology along the way. Watch out for the arctic terns.
Jarlshof
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Jarlshof submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. This picture of Jarlshof shows the beautiful setting of the site, and I think the foreground is the bronze age buildings!
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Log Text: A must visit site. There is so much to see - a veritable palimpsest.
Gallow Hill chambered cairn
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gallow Hill chambered cairn submitted by josvg on 11th Aug 2014. Close-up of the chamber from the West.
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Easthouse
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Easthouse submitted by Ogneslav on 7th Oct 2008. A view from W towards Whiteness Voe.
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East Burra Firth Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
East Burra Firth Chambered Cairn submitted by howe on 10th Apr 2012. View of the ruined chamber
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Log Text: Easy access from the nearby road.
Clodie Knowe
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Clodie Knowe submitted by SandyG on 7th Feb 2020. View from the east.
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Log Text: Right next to the road.
Clickhimin
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Clickhimin submitted by jbamps on 12th Sep 2005. Remain of a broch near Lerwik (Shetland).
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Cattapund Knowe cairn
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cattapund Knowe cairn submitted by josvg on 11th Aug 2014. The ruined cairn viewed from the south; on the right so-called planticrubs (= a small enclosure used for growing root crops, preventing e.g. sheep from eating the plants).
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Log Text: Parking is available very close to the cairn.
Trowie Knowe
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Trowie Knowe submitted by howe on 4th Apr 2012. The remains of the more northerly cairn by the side of the road to North Roe. The cairn is about 9 metres across and appears to have the remains of a trefoil chamber.
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Log Text: This cairn is close to the road and is fairly accessible although wellingtons would help keep feet dry.
Beorgs of Housetter
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Beorgs of Housetter submitted by howe on 4th Apr 2012. The much reduced remains of the more southerly cairn also known as the Giant's Stones. Only two uprights of the facade are recognisable.
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Log Text: These stones are seen as the remains of a cairn facade. It is possible that this is a stone row with an adjacent cairn. The stone lying in the centre of the cairn may have once stood in the socket to the east.