A mini guide to
Places worth your time in South Mainland: Sumburgh, Jarlshof & Mousa
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Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
More than 4,000 years of settlement on one site: Bronze Age houses, an Iron Age broch and wheelhouses, Norse longhouses and a 1500s laird's house.
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Lighthouse first lit in 1821 at the southern tip of the Mainland, with a seasonal visitor centre and a nature reserve open all year.
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Iron Age tower about 13 metres tall, thought to date from about 300 BC; Historic Environment Scotland calls it Scotland's tallest Iron Age tower.
Island joined to the Mainland by a 500-metre sand tombolo; a hoard of Pictish silver was found at its chapel site in 1958.
Iron Age broch and village found in 1975 when a road was built near Sumburgh Airport, open in summer with guided tours.
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Traditional 19th-century thatched crofthouse in Dunrossness, presented as it would have looked in the 1870s, with box beds and a peat fire.
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Watermill commissioned by the Grierson lairds of Quendale in 1867 to grind the estate's grain; grinding began the following year.
Small village about 27 km south of Lerwick with a sandy beach where otters are often seen.
Shetland
Shetland's old capital, the Shetland Bus story, Tingwall's law site and Neolithic Stanydale
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Esha Ness cliffs, Ronas Hill, the islands of Yell and Unst, and Britain's most northerly sights
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Shetland's harbour town: the museum, Fort Charlotte, Clickimin Broch and the ferry to Bressay
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