Shetland: History and Archeology

This is the corner stone of a Viking longhouse (probably). A wall of the longhouse. 

One of the rooms. 

A doorway. 


And probably the remains of the rest of the building are in the walls around the fields. 

And in the walls of the hall built in the Middle Ages which was occupied until the 19th century. 

Over the millennia this site has been occupied by people most of the time. Imagine it with smoke coming out of the chimneys, people riding into town on Shetland ponies and ships at anchor in the harbour. 

One of the last two dairy herds in the Shetlands uses the pastures here at Setter - an old Norse word for summer pasture. And lots of sheep!