Tag: Shetland

Brochs: Ingeniously Engineered Windowless Iron Age Structures Of North And West Scotland

MessageToEagle.com | October 26, 2023

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Already three centuries ago (in 1726), John Toland wrote that brochs or the so-called ‘Pictish Towers’ “are apt all over Scotland to make everything

remains of Jarlshof unveil all kinds of settlements, wheelhouses, roundhouses, longhouses, manor houses; from the Stone Age to the end of the 17th century. Photo:graveyardsofscotland

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History Of Jarlshof – Thousands Of Years Of History With Traces Of Picts, Vikings And Scots

MessageToEagle.com | January 17, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – Jarlshof is the ancient settlement located in the vicinity of Sumburgh Head, at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of