Sometimes, on the other hand, they were sited in wilderness areas ( e. g. Levenwick and Culswick in Shetland, Castle Cole in Sutherland ).

Brochs are often built beside the sea ( Carn Liath, Sutherland ); sometimes they are on islands in lochs ( e. g. Clickimin in Shetland ).

The large and many holes in lacy knitting makes it extremely elastic ; for example, some Shetland " wedding-ring " shawls are so fine that they may be drawn through a wedding ring.

In 43 and 77 AD the Roman authors Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder referred to the seven islands they call Haemodae and Acmodae respectively, both of which are assumed to be Shetland.

For the independent farmers of Shetland this had negative consequences, as they now had to fish for these merchant-lairds.

Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and Charles II ratifying the pawning in the 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown, explicitly exempting them from any " dissolution of His Majesty ’ s lands ", they are currently considered as being officially part of the United Kingdom.

The fleet left Bergen in July, and reached Shetland and Orkney in August where they were joined by chieftains from the Hebrides and Man.

Some Shetland fiddle tunes are said to have come to human fiddlers when they heard the trows playing.

The label of junior high school is used for some through schools in Orkney and Shetland which cater for pupils from 5 up to the age of 14, at which point they transfer to a nearby secondary school.

The parliament was to be elected using Mixed member proportional representation which is a combination of 73 ( First-past-the-post ) constituencies using the same boundaries as was used in the 1997 UK General Election with the exception of Orkney and Shetland as they were made separate constituencies and proportional representation with the 73 constituencies being grouped together to make eight regions which would each elect seven additional members to make a total of 129 Members of Scottish Parliament ( MSP's ).

Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.

In the British Isles, they breed in Shetland and Orkney, the Outer Hebrides, Sutherland, Caithness, and some islands in Argyll.

For the independent farmer / fishermen of Shetland this had negative consequences, as they now had to fish for these merchant-lairds.

Orkney and Shetland also have separate local Councils which are dominated by independents, that is they are not members of a political party.

More recently, they reached Lindisfarne in Northumberland in September 1995, and the Shetland Islands in 1987.

Closer to Norway than they are to the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Islands offer the birdwatcher an amazing experience more akin to being in the Arctic than somewhere in the British Isles.

In addition to the aforementioned ( ready-made clothing in 1859 and the Button-Down Dress Shirt in 1896 ), other firsts Brooks Brothers brought to America include: English Foulard Ties ( introduced by Francis G. Lloyd in the 1890s before he was made president of the corporation ); The Sack Suit ( 1895 ); The Pink Dress Shirt ( before 1900, it became a sensation in the postwar period to go with charcoal-gray suits ); The Shetland Sweater ( introduced in 1904 ); The Polo Coat ( about 1910 ); Madras ( introduced from India via Brooks Brothers to the public in 1920 ); Argyles ( in the 1920s, Brooks Brothers became the first American retailer to manufacture argyle socks for men ); Light-weight Summer Suits ( the first lightweight summer suits made of cotton corduroy and seersucker were introduced by Brooks during the early 1930s ); Wash-and-Wear Shirts ( in 1953 the store pioneered the manufacture of wash-and-wear shirts using a blend of Dacron, polyester, and cotton that was invented by Ruth R. Benerito, which they called " Brooksweave "); and the Non-iron Cotton Dress Shirt ( 1999 ).

A man whom they met earlier is on his way to Shetland to undertake a casual job there, and Loggo promptly chooses to join him.

Allodial titles are known as udal tenure in Orkney and Shetland, the only parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland where they exist.

They asked some of the skippers of the boats that were coming from Norway if they would return to deliver agents, and bring others back to Shetland.

Upon their arrival in Shetland they commandeered Flemington House, ( later named " Kergord "), in Weisdale, for their headquarters, and they found a perfect location in Lunna Ness north of Lerwick, from which the boats could operate.

On their return to Shetland, they ran into a storm, and one man, Karsten Sangolt, was blown overboard and drowned.

As in the case of Old Scatness in Shetland ( near Jarlshof and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water ( some have wells or natural springs rising within their central space ).

Sources from the 17th and 18th centuries speak of Norn ( sometimes identified as " Norse ", " Norwegian " or " Danish ") as being in a state of decline and generally indicate that the language remained stronger in Shetland than in Orkney.

Shetland is subdivided into 12 civil parishes that no longer have administrative significance but are sometimes used for statistical purposes and 18 community councils.

The most reliable place for them is the Shetland Isles, particularly the Loch of Funzie on Fetlar, with a few birds breeding elsewhere in Scotland in the Outer Hebrides ( e. g. at Loch na Muilne, where a " phalarope watchpoint " has been set up ) and sometimes the Scottish Mainland in Ross-shire or Sutherland.

In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name Bonxie, a Shetland name of unknown origin.

It has latest local news and weather for Shetland on the hour and sometimes national / international news.

The Shetland Amenity Trust lists about 120 sites in Shetland as candidate brochs, while The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland identifies a total of 571 candidate broch sites throughout the country.

Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.

There are five extant examples of towers with significantly higher walls: Dun Carloway on Lewis, Dun Telve and Dun Troddan in Glenelg, Mousa in Shetland and Dun Dornaigil in Sutherland, all of whose walls exceed 6. 5 m ( 21 ft ) in height.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.

An example is to be found on the uninhabited island of Vementry on the north side of the West Mainland, where it appears that the cairn may have originally been circular and its distinctive heel shape added as a secondary development, a process repeated elsewhere in Shetland.

The island is administratively part of Shetland and lies south-west of Sumburgh Head on the Mainland of Shetland and north-east of North Ronaldsay, Orkney.

Fair Isle ( Feedero ) depicted close to Shetland ( Hetlandia ) on the 1539 Carta Marina

Despite this, the process by which Scots overtook Norn as the primary spoken language on the islands was not a swift one, and most natives of Orkney and Shetland likely spoke Norn as a first language until the late 16th and early-to-mid 17th centuries respectively.

A Shetland " guddick " ( riddle ) in Norn, which Jakob Jakobsen heard told on Unst, the northernmost island in Shetland, in the 1890s.

The dumping of waste at Bellingshausen, a Russian Base on King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | King George Island, demonstrated the need for environmental regulation in Antarctica

* " Make Me a Pallet on the Floor " / " Shetland Pony Blues " ( 1967 )

Due to the practice, dating to at least the early Neolithic, of building in stone on virtually treeless islands, Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.

A midden site at West Voe on the south coast of Mainland, dated to 4320 – 4030 BC, has provided the first evidence of Mesolithic human activity on Shetland.