Staneydale "Temple"

On a low rise west of Walls stands one of the largest Neolithic buildings in northern Britain — a heart-shaped hall built around 3,000 BC with walls four metres thick. Antiquarians called it a "temple" because it dwarfs the houses around it; archaeologists now suspect it was a great hall for the people of west Mainland. Charred wood found inside suggested a roof of timbers carried from as far as Norway, before Shetland's trees ran out.