A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

It has been found in some Shetland brochs that guard cells in entrance passageways are close to large door-check stones.

in length and wide, it has an area of 768 hectares ( 3 square miles ), making it the tenth largest of the Shetland Islands.

Hill has also encouraged the rest of Shetland to declare independence.

Michael Barnes, professor of Scandinavian Studies at University College London, has published a study, The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetland.

When Shetland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, trade with northern Europe decreased, although fishing has continued to be an important aspect of the economy up to the present day.

Shetland is around north of mainland Scotland, covers an area of and has a coastline long.

Shetland has an oceanic climate, with long but mild winters and short, cool summers.

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.

Shetland's access to oil revenues has funded the Shetland Charitable Trust which in turn funds a wide variety of local programmes.

However, the industry faces challenges due to plagiarism of the word " Shetland " by manufacturers operating elsewhere and a certification trademark, " The Shetland Lady ", has been registered.

The Methodist Church has a relatively high membership in Shetland, which is a District of the Methodist Church ( with the rest of Scotland comprising a separate District ).

The Church of Scotland has a Presbytery of Shetland that includes St. Columba's Church in Lerwick.

Shetland has numerous seabird colonies.

It has been suggested that the land called Thule by the Greek merchant Pytheas ( 4th century BC ) was actually Iceland, although it seems highly unlikely considering Pytheas ' description of it as an agricultural country with plenty of milk, honey, and fruit ( possibly the Faroe or Shetland islands ).

Under the Wool Marketing Act 1950, the BWMB is required to register all producers with four or more sheep with the exception of producers in Shetland, which has its own arrangement.

The shore station was purchased by the Shetland Amenity Trust in 1995 and has been converted into a Marine Heritage Centre.

Deception Island is an island in South Shetland off the Antarctic Peninsula, which has one of the safest harbours in Antarctica.

Between 1800 and 1900, S. vulgaris vulgaris colonised north and westward from England to Ireland and all of Scotland except for Shetland ( where zetlandicus remains present ); since 1935, this subspecies has also spread to Iceland, where it now breeds in the southeast and southwest.

It has also been introduced to Shetland and the Faroe Islands.

BBC Radio Shetland, a BBC Radio Scotland regional opt out, has its studios in Pitt Lane.

The Shetland Times, a weekly local newspaper, has its premises in Gremista on the northern outskirts of Lerwick.

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.

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.

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

The geographical isolation and recent glacial history of Shetland have resulted in a depleted mammalian fauna and the Brown Rat and House Mouse are two of only three species of rodent present on the islands.

The Shetland Field Mouse is the third and the archipelago's fourth endemic subspecies, of which there are three varieties on Yell, Foula and Fair Isle.

* Sewing-Machine Needles, a group of three prominent rock needles near Rancho Point, Deception Island, Shetland Islands

The only exceptions to this were the three Island Councils, Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney which had the combined powers of Regions and Districts.

There are three main faults that dictate the geography of Yell-the first is the Bluemull Fault, which separates Yell from Unst by creating the Bluemull Sound ; the second is the Arisdale Fault which forms the northern part of Whale Firth, and extends south to Arisdale, and out of Hamnavoe ; and the third is the Nesting Fault, which more or less creates Yell Sound, and divides Yell from Mainland Shetland.

There are three islands in Shetland called Papey, and both in Orkney and in Shetland, there are several districts named Paplay or Papplay, doubtless the same as Papyli of Iceland "

There are three islands in Shetland called Papey, and both in Orkney and in Shetland, there are several districts named Paplay or Papplay, doubtless the same as Papyli of Iceland "

On 26 October 1943 the US Navy officially transferred three submarine chasers to the Shetland Bus operation.

He and three other men escaped to Shetland in August 1941 with his father's boat, the 42-foot Villa II.

( Boston, 1981 ).</ ref > for example the Shetland cure that requires blowing on a burn three times while reciting the charm " Here come I to cure a burnt sore.

When Paul was 11 the family moved back to Scotland for three years while his father worked on the Shetland oil rigs.

The Highland Pony is one of the three native breeds of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the others are the Shetland pony and the Eriskay pony.

Housay, also known as West Isle, is one of the three islands that form the Out Skerries island group, the most easterly part of the Shetland Isles.

There are three islands in Shetland called Papey, and both in Orkney and in Shetland, there are several districts named Paplay or Papplay, doubtless the same as Papyli of Iceland

In addition to his broadcasting and film-making career, King has written three books: Wild Guide, Wild Life, and Shetland Diaries.

Two of the three islands areas — Orkney and Shetland — have boundaries identical to those of earlier counties.