Very interesting article 👍I am from the other side of the world. Where I live and surf and play the violin, The landscape is much the same, but there is no archeological sites. The landscape here was created by the European settlers cutting down all the trees for farming. I’m wondering if that’s what happened there at the Shetland Islands.
Thanks for the article to read much the same happened here in Southern Australia (Victoria) just far latter on in history and the trees were gum trees. May Surfing is done around a place called Phillip Island. Around that neck of the woods there were allot Scottish people that my farther introduced me when I was growing up. It was a real mixed bag of immigrants back in his day. Germans, White Russians (As they were called back then) Scott’s and Italians.
Where are you located? The lack of trees in Shetland appears to have begun many thousands of years ago by Picts and maintained by wind and animals as well as Vikings and other settlers. I saw one house on Bressay with a walled front garden full of trees. You might find this article interesting -- https://www.shetland.org/blog/story-of-shetlands-trees
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Very interesting article 👍I am from the other side of the world. Where I live and surf and play the violin, The landscape is much the same, but there is no archeological sites. The landscape here was created by the European settlers cutting down all the trees for farming. I’m wondering if that’s what happened there at the Shetland Islands.
Thanks for the article to read much the same happened here in Southern Australia (Victoria) just far latter on in history and the trees were gum trees. May Surfing is done around a place called Phillip Island. Around that neck of the woods there were allot Scottish people that my farther introduced me when I was growing up. It was a real mixed bag of immigrants back in his day. Germans, White Russians (As they were called back then) Scott’s and Italians.
Where are you located? The lack of trees in Shetland appears to have begun many thousands of years ago by Picts and maintained by wind and animals as well as Vikings and other settlers. I saw one house on Bressay with a walled front garden full of trees. You might find this article interesting -- https://www.shetland.org/blog/story-of-shetlands-trees