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Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World

The Ancients

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Stone Aged Stone Circles in Shaitland?

The Jew is still out on there until more excavations are made. It isn't your standard domestic house either, although it's set in an area which it has fields and it has other domestic houses around it. And one interesting thing about it is also that when you're there, you cannot see the sea. Now for Shaitland, that's really unusual. Nevertheless, they've used driftwood in creating two great big poles in the center of it, which would have held the roof up presumably. So yeah, something different is going on there. But as I say, we don't know what.

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