🎧 Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
🎧 The Ancients • 43m
Over 100 miles further than the northern reaches of Britain, past Orkney, are a remote group of islands that make up Shetland.
It’s one of the best kept secrets of prehistoric Scotland, containing evidence of the lives that were lived there some 5,000 years ago with Viking archeology as well as prehistoric remains.
In today’s episode, Tristan will take us to this edge of the prehistoric world, talking to Dr. Val Turner, one of Shetland’s regional archeologists. Join them to find out about what life on these distant islands would have been like, from the axe factories that were discovered there to the incredible Iron Age skyscrapers that are the brochs.
Produced by Annie Coloe. Edited by Stuart Beckwith.
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