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...

Opportunistic and exceptionally clever, ravens can mimic your words, count, are complex problem solvers and use tools. They play with...

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...

On a grassy knoll at the foot of Staney Hill is a concrete slab, the visible part ...

Dramatically perched atop a small crag in Fladdabister are two 7m in diameter drystone circular limekilns. Used as a render for mortar...

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...

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...

On the West Side, not far from the dramatic Broch of Culswick, you will find the remains of what appear rather typical abandoned crofts...

Whilst we would normally delight in presenting our (seemingly) annual Halloween talk this year, horrors of an altogether too real kind...

Dr Robert Munro was a physician and amateur archaeologist who turned his full attention to archaeology in 1886 and began lecturing in...

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...

As a general guide before discussion, upland farming anywhere is a demanding labour, with the rocky landscape it can be even more so...

Still evident throughout the crofting landscape can be found subsets of the typical croft and crofthouse, namely that of the pauper hut...

In our ongoing work with the North Roe Felsite Project (see here), and for the sheer pleasure of walking in remote places, we have come...

On the back of the five-year Scotland’s Rural Past project – the research, recording and promotion of Scotland's historic rural...

This is a written version of the Halloween night presentation this year (2019) which followed the AGM. There were many sources of...

Not much remains of Sna Broch these days, years of storms and coastal erosion have reduced the main broch to nonexistence though the outer

The North Roe Neolithic ‘axe factory’ covers an area of at least 60 square kilometres, from the Beorgs of Uyea on its northern fringe to...

Born on the 1st of March 1891 in Forfar C S T Calder is perhaps most closely associated with Shetland as anywhere, a result of his...

The presence of witches in Shetland folklore runs persistently deep. Though they are sometimes helpful they are as often not, the tragic...