<< Our Photo Pages >> Jarlshof - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Shetland
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Multi-periodSite Name: JarlshofCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.656 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shetland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: HU397096 Landranger Map Number: 4
Latitude: 59.869650N Longitude: 1.292833W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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SandyG visited on 11th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5 A must visit site. There is so much to see - a veritable palimpsest.
MapmakerJenny2 visited on 6th Jul 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Wonderful place to visit!
SolarMegalith visited on 10th Jun 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5
eforrest25 visited on 26th May 2014 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Jansold visited on 1st May 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
43559959 visited on 4th Mar 2004 Facinating site despite heavy rain.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.4 Ambience: 4.6 Access: 4.6
Next were early Iron Age people constructing circular houses, some with souterrains. These were followed some time later by the builders of the broch with walled garth which, in turn, was succeeded by a whole series of different structures including an aisled round-house, a wheel-house, which was occupied right up until the time of the Norsemen, a norse house and a mediaeval farmhouse taking settlement right up to the 17th century CE.
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