Jarlshof Prehistoric Settlement
Museums & Science Centres · Sumburgh, Shetland, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 9.30am
🌳 Outdoor8–1212–16Booking requiredEducationalMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Dogs welcome
Visitors can use the level gravel car park of the Sumburgh Hotel. A third party, The Sumburgh Hotel, will charge a separate fee for coach parking. You are unable to remain parked on site after your allocated timeslot expires. Coach park bookings required 7 days a week.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Jarlshof is an archaeological site spanning more than 4,000 years of human settlement on a single Shetland headland. Neolithic people first settled here around 2700 BC, and the site remained in use until the 1600s. You can see oval-shaped Bronze Age houses, an Iron Age broch and wheelhouses, Norse long houses, a medieval farmstead, and a laird's house from the 1500s. The dramatic headland location overlooks the West Voe of Sumburgh. An audio guide is available to explore the site.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Hand sanitiser
- Picnic blanket
- Backseat organiser
- Travel games
- Sun cream
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
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