Shetland

Exploring Scotland's Heritage

by Anna Ritchie, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

Examining Shetland's heritage, this work includes a look at an 18th-century fort in Lerwick, a Viking-age farm beside Sumburgh Airport, Scotland's best-preserved iron-age broch on the island of Mousa, tombstones, and storehouses that illustrate Shetland's North Sea trade.

148 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 1997

About the author

Dr. Anna Ritchie OBE, BA, PhD, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, née Bachelier, was a British archaeologist and historian. She was brought up in Surrey and developed her interest in archaeology as a schoolgirl. She studied at University College, Cardiff, and in the mid-sixties moved to Edinburgh where she was a postgraduate student in the University's Department of Archaeology.

Ritchie directed archaeological excavations at Point of Buckqoy, Knap of Howar and Holm of Papa Westray in Orkney. Works commissioned by RCAHMS and historic Scotland include guides to the stones of Meigle and St. Vigeans, and introductions to Viking Scotland, Iona, and Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Orkney and Shetland. With her husband J.N. Graham Ritchie she wrote Scotland: Archaeology and Early History. She contributed papers to Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and edited several volumes (1972-78, 2004-2005).

She was a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and a trustee of both the National Museums of Scotland and the British Museum.