The three-day UHI Archaeology Institute field trip to Shetland drew to a close on Friday, with events focusing around the town of Lerwick.
The first stop of the day was the spectacular Clickimin broch – a restored Iron Age structure surrounded by structures dating from c. 1000BC to AD500. This was followed by a visit to the Shetland Museum and a walking tour of Lerwick.
On Thursday, prehistory was on the agenda, the group heading to the Gruting school settlement site, the Hamars ring cairn and the Staneydale temple – one of the only surviving megalithic structures in Shetland.
After lunch it was on to the Scord of Brouster settlement site. Comprising three stone buildings, constructed and used intermittently between c. 3000BC and 1000 BC, these are associated with earth and stone banks defining at least six fields. Then it was on to the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall kirk and the 16th century Scalloway castle.
Out and about on Thursday. (📷 Julia Cussans)
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