Word: jarlshof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Jarlshof in the Shetlands, off the northern coast of Scotland, is a great mound of wind-blown beach sand stuffed with stone ruins. For more than 50 years archeologists have poked at the mound, but the job of excavating it was not undertaken until a few years ago. Near the top of the sand were remains of houses built by the Vikings, who conquered the Shetlands in the Dark Ages. Farther down were strange windowless stone buildings that must have looked in their prime like a cross between a medieval castle and a huddle of Eskimo igloos...
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