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Jarlshof is the best known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland. It lies near the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland.

Buildings on the site include remains of a Bronze Age smithy, an Iron Age broch and houses, Pictish houses, Viking longhouses and a mediaeval farmhouse . Also on the site is a seventeenth century manor house, which Walter Scott named Jarlshof in his novel The Pirate . The rest of the site was not rediscovered until the late nineteenth century.

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