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Shetland is a Scottish crime drama television series produced by ITV ... Danny Cairns is a former Ayr police officer who was arrested for stealing drugs and getting a ...
David Cairns: Labour 2011 By-election: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey: Danny Alexander: Liberal Democrats Kilmarnock and Loudoun: Cathy Jamieson: Labour Co-operative Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath: Gordon Brown: Labour Prime Minister (2007-2010) Lanark and Hamilton East: Jimmy Hood: Labour Linlithgow and East Falkirk: Michael Connarty ...
The Clava cairns date from this period, with about 50 cairns of this type in the Inverness area. [48] Corrimony chambered cairn near Drumnadrochit is an example dated to 2000 BC or older. The only surviving evidence of burial was a stain indicating the presence of a single body. The cairn is surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones.
The Standing Stones of Yoxie is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting on the northeastern coast of Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland.It is located approximately 100 yards (91 m) to the southeast of Benie Hoose, not far from the steep cliffs of Yoxie Geo. [1] The site is also known as "Yoxie Biggins". [2]
Stanydale Temple is a Neolithic site on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland.It is located in a field to the south of the modern village of Stanydale, roughly 21 miles (34 km) by road northwest of Lerwick, to the northeast of the village of Gruting.
The Pettigarths Field Cairns is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately 140 metres (460 ft) to the northwest of Benie Hoose. [1] The site contains upright stones as well as masonry. [2]
Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, ... [51] [58] Heel-shaped cairns, ...
Charles S. T. Calder (March 1891 [1] – December 1972) was a Scottish archaeologist who undertook extensive explorations from the 1920s to 1950s. He is best known for his explorations of Neolithic cairns and buildings in Shetland in the 1940s and 1950s, although his contribution to the investigative work and publications of RCAHMS during a period of over 40 years service cannot be overstated.