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    Old Scatness is an archeological site on Scat Ness, near the village of Scatness, in the parish of Dunrossness in the south end of Mainland, Shetland,...
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    of them from Scotland. The application for consideration of "Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland" as a future World Heritage...
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    airport. Scatness is in the parish of Dunrossness. Scatness includes the housing estates of Sanblister Place and Colonial Place. On the east side of Scat Ness...
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    Broch (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    centuries BC and AD. A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to between 390 and 200 BC...
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    September. In 2010 "The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland" including Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof was added to those seeking to be on the "tentative list"...
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    vocal jazz, scat singing or scatting is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all. In scat singing, the...
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    Shetland (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    addition to Mousa there are significant ruins at Clickimin, Culswick, Old Scatness and West Burrafirth, although their origin and purpose is a matter of...
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    in 2015 are: The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland including Mousa Broch, Old Scatness and Jarlshof is a cultural candidate. The Flow Country of Caithness and...
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    September 2009. Shetland Amenity Trust purchased the land upon which Old Scatness sits in 1995 to allow excavation to take place, and to allow public access...
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    in old Scatness, part of Virkie. Jarlshof Old Scatness Pool of Virkie Sumburgh Airport Sumburgh Head Virkie Marina Ness Boating Club "Old Scatness, Virkie...
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    similar mezzanine floors dating to the Middle Iron Age was found at the Old Scatness site in Shetland, supporting this possibility. Inside Structure 1 are...
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    Not much is known about her upbringing. By the time she was four years old there were talks about her marriage to the Scottish Prince James. In 1468...
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    July 2016 Island of St Helena, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July 2016 Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July...
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    Quendale, Virkie, Exnaboe, Grutness, Toab, Ness of Burgi, Clumlie Broch, Scatness, Sumburgh Airport, Sumburgh Head, West Voe, the islands of Lady's Holm...
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    the Old English or Old Norse word for a spring or stream. Less mystery surrounds the suffixes –burh/–werc, -dun, -ford and –feld, which are the Old English...
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    addition to Mousa there are significant broch ruins at Clickimin, Culswick, Old Scatness and West Burrafirth, although their origin and purpose is a matter of...
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    Roo's Castle Earl's Bu Jarlshof Kirkwall Castle Linton Chapel Maeshowe Old Scatness Port an Eilean Mhòir boat burial Rubha an Dùnain Scar boat burial St...
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    Isle of Skye (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    peninsula and further south is the rock pillar of the Old Man of Storr. The view of the Quiraing and the Old Man of Storr is one of the most iconic in all of...
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    Orkney (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/; Scots: Orkney; Old Norse: Orkneyjar; Norn: Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago...
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  • prominent sire. Scat Daddy was sired by Johannesburg, who was a champion in both the United States and Europe as a two-year-old. Scat Daddy's dam was...
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    Dun Ringill". Canmore. Retrieved 4 August 2012. Miers (2008) p. 215 "Old Scatness Broch". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 29 July 2012. "Dun Troddan"...
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    Mainland, Shetland (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun Carloway Rubha an Dùnain...
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    population and their sheep were evacuated. The name of the island is from Old Norse Seyðoy, meaning "Island of Sheep". The breed was introduced to and...
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    Erraid (category Articles containing Old Irish (to 900)-language text)
    Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun Carloway Rubha an Dùnain...
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    Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun Carloway Rubha an Dùnain...
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  • Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun Carloway Rubha an Dùnain...
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  • the south lie Soray/Soraigh (Old Norse Suðurey, south island or Sauðurey, sheep's island) and Sgeir Tomain (probably from Old Norse sker, skerry, shallow...
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    Lewis and Harris (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    1857. By 1863, the town had become a police burgh; the last remains of the Old Castle were removed. The island is the ancestral homeland of the Highland...
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  • Norn language (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    Mackenzie wrote that Norn was not yet entirely extinct, being "retained by old people," who still spoke it among each other. The last reports of Norn speakers...
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    Northern Isles (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    "the Crucible of Iron Age Shetland", which includes the Broch of Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof, joined the UK's "Tentative List" of World Heritage Sites...
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