Iron Age Settlement

Iron Age Settlement is an archaeological site in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Iron Age Settlement is situated nearby to the archaeological site Bronze Age Settlement, as well as near the museum Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sumburgh Airport and Ness of Burgi fort.

Sumburgh Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sumburgh Airport is the main airport serving the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is located on the southern tip of the mainland in the parish of Dunrossness, 20 miles south of Lerwick.

The Ness of Burgi fort is an iron-age promontory fort in the Old Scatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south of the island of Mainland, Shetland in Scotland. Ness of Burgi fort is situated 1 mile southwest of Iron Age Settlement.

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Sumburgh Head at the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland. Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Iron Age Settlement.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sumburgh and Scatness.

Sumburgh

Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sumburgh is a village near the southern tip of Mainland in the Shetland Islands, with a population in 2011 of about 100. Its main attraction is Jarlshof, continuously inhabited for 4000 years.

Scatness

Village

Photo: Douglas Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scatness is a settlement on the headland of Scat Ness at the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, across the West Voe of Sumburgh from Sumburgh Head and close to Sumburgh Airport, the Shetland Islands' main airport.

Exnaboe

Hamlet

Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Exnaboe, locally referred to as 'bö', is a settlement in the Virkie area of the parish of Dunrossness, South Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, overlooking Sumburgh Airport, and the Pool of Virkie.

Iron Age Settlement

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

59.86894° or 59° 52′ 8″ north

Longitude

-1.2902° or 1° 17′ 25″ west

Open location code

9CFWVP95+HW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5761533658

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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