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Old Scatness, Shetland : Visitor Centre Scotland

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Old Scatness Shetland

Old Scatness Iron Age archeological site

Location: South Mainland, nr Sumburgh Airport
Site unearthed: late 70's
Excavation start: 1995
Old Scatness Excavation : Bradford University students

Remains of an Iron Age tower or Broch + Britain’s best-preserved Iron Age village

Proposed “world-class" visitor centre
Due to be built in 2012
Dome-shaped grass-roofed timber-framed building clad using walls made of stone from the site

Design approved by Shetland Amenity Trust trustees

Following excavation at Old Scatness it is now thought brochs were built much earlier than previously believed and that people lived in the Scatness settlement for around 4,000 years.

The dome was the favoured option for the Old Scatness broch site among three investigated for Shetland Amenity Trust by Edinburgh-based experts led by specialist architects Groves-Raines.

The architectural inspiration for the dome comes from the Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, the Cliffs of Moher visitor centre in County Clare, Ireland, and the Ladbyskibet Viking ship burial site in Denmark.

Old Scatness Heritage Project
Shetland Amenity Trust
22-24 North Road
Lerwick, ZE1 0NQ, UK

UNESCO world heritage site : Skara Brae, Orkney



 




Another Shetland Amenity Trust Building Proposal:

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse Buildings Restoration
2007-11
Facilities incl. visitor centre, self-catering accommodation & offices

Shetland school

Shetland Museum

Shetland Buildings



Scottish Buildings - Selection

The Mareel, Shetland
Mareel
image from architects
Mareel

Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Pier Arts Centre Stromness
photo © Adrian Welch
Pier Arts Centre Orkney

Union Square, Aberdeen
Union Square Aberdeen
image from architects
Aberdeen Shopping Centre

Inverness Campus

Scottish Architects

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Old Scatness Visitor Centre Building : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Website: www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/amenitytrust/archaeology/scatness

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