2008

Opening Times 2008:
Monday to Friday - 11am to 3pm.
Saturday and Sunday - 1pm to 4pm.

The museum is pleased to announce that it will once again have a rare Viking brooch on display. This item, probably around 1,000 years old, was unearthed by Channel 4's Time Team several years ago at the 'Giant's Grave' at Aith in Fetlar. It is the single most valuable item the Time Team have found to date.

Also on display will be all the other items unearthed by the Time Team. These include items from the Norse settlement at Gord, Houbie, and the 'Giant's Grave' boat burial at Aith. The large steatite bowl unearthed at Gord has now been taken to Lerwick museum.

Sir William Watson Cheyne
Many of the written and published works of Sir Watson, the noted surgeon and assistant to Lord Lister, are now available as a free PDF download from the Sir Watson website:
http://www.watson-cheyne.com/.

The Time Team in Fetlar
The Time Team, from the popular UK television programme, were on Fetlar from Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th of August, 2002.

Because of the interest this has created, we have set up a few extra pages providing a record of their activity on the island. The sites they have excavated are at Gord, Houbie, where parts of a Viking house have been uncovered, and also a Viking boat burial at Aith. The pages showing the Time Team in Fetlar can be accessed from here.

As always, some of our collections are accessible online through this website. Use the Digitisation Project link from the left-hand navigation buttons.