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Archaeology Shetland
- Jan 14
Art & Archaeology
This year we were able once again to work quite closely with the wonderful people at DigIt! to promote our archaeological endeavours and...
Stephen Jennings
- Nov 19, 2022
Site in Focus - Our Bronze Age Summer
As the season comes to a close and we reflect on some of this summer’s events, we are struck how nearly everything we touched this year...
Stephen Jennings, Jon Sandison and Samuel Sjoberg
- Oct 4, 2022
In Depth - In Defence of Lerwick by Land, Sea and Air
The following is a companion piece to the walk of the same name we hosted early in May 2022. An 'unofficial' Scotland's Year of Stories...
Stephen Jennings
- Sep 17, 2022
Site in Focus - An Actual Day Out with Archaeology Shetland
As opposed to our spoof video from a few seasons ago, in June we had a long day out with Archaeology Shetland that rather more accurately...
Stephen Jennings
- Jul 14, 2022
Site in Focus - Air Raid Shelters of WWII
The remains of air raid shelters from World War Two can be found dotted throughout the Shetland landscape, from Sumburgh to Scatsta and...
Stephen Jennings
- May 21, 2022
In Depth - A Brief Economic Case Study of Lang Clodie Wick
The following is a companion piece to the presentation of ‘The Iron Age in the Neolithic Axe Factory of North Roe, Shetland’. It forms a...
Stephen Jennings
- Mar 31, 2022
Site in Focus - Burn of Roerwater and a Word about Pictish Multicellular Sites
The move away from monumental architecture and into more ephemeral structures in the LIA is not fully understood though it is clear what...
Archaeology Shetland
- Jan 8, 2022
A Shetland Christmas 2021
Thammasmass e'en was five nights before Yule-day, and this evening was supposed to be peculiarly holy. No work of any kind was done after...
Stephen Jennings
- Dec 1, 2021
In Depth - An 'Unkindness' (Halloween 2021)
Opportunistic and exceptionally clever, ravens can mimic your words, count, are complex problem solvers and use tools. They play with...
Archaeology Shetland
- Dec 1, 2021
Site in Focus - Sandy Loch Oddity
At the north end of Sandy Loch in Lerwick – the sandy beach end – a building emerges when the water is low. Recently the weather has...
Samuel Sjoberg
- Oct 16, 2021
Air Raid Islands: the Luftwaffe over Shetland During World War Two
On a grassy knoll at the foot of Staney Hill is a concrete slab, the visible part ...
Stephen Jennings
- Aug 21, 2021
Site in Focus - The Fladdabister Limekilns
Dramatically perched atop a small crag in Fladdabister are two 7m in diameter drystone circular limekilns. Used as a render for mortar...
Stephen Jennings
- May 18, 2021
Site in Focus - East Shore Broch
Terribly eroding into the sea, East Shore Broch is adjacent to Harpers Marina and just east of Eastshore and the Pool of Virkie. With Old...
Stephen Jennings
- Apr 9, 2021
In Depth - The Fate of the Picts in the Northern Isles
The following article is an examination of a divisive topic for some in the Northern Isles. As the author, I am often puzzled over the...
Stephen Jennings
- Dec 5, 2020
Site in Focus - Sotersta
On the West Side, not far from the dramatic Broch of Culswick, you will find the remains of what appear rather typical abandoned crofts...
Stephen Jennings
- Dec 4, 2020
In Depth - Halloween Treats
Whilst we would normally delight in presenting our (seemingly) annual Halloween talk this year, horrors of an altogether too real kind...
Stephen Jennings
- Oct 2, 2020
In Depth - On the Trail of Munro
Dr Robert Munro was a physician and amateur archaeologist who turned his full attention to archaeology in 1886 and began lecturing in...
Stephen Jennings
- Sep 28, 2020
Site in Focus - The Broch of Burra Ness
On the east coast of Yell and at the toe of a boot-shaped spit of fine pasture, just south of North Sandwick, are the remains of the...
Stephen Jennings
- Aug 10, 2020
Site in Focus - Poverty in the Bronze Age
As a general guide before discussion, upland farming anywhere is a demanding labour, with the rocky landscape it can be even more so...
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