page_title: Zenith of Iron Age Shetland
section_title: Sites
hierarchical_section_title: Zenith of Iron Age Shetland / Sites
caption_attribution_description: English: Approximate locations of the brochs in Scotland
context_page_description: The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three sites in Shetland that have applied to be on the United Kingdom "Tentative List" of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. The application was made by the Shetland Amenity Trust in 2010, and in 2011 the site became one of 11 successful UK applications to join the Tentative List, three of them from Scotland.
context_section_description: A variety of different archaeological phenomena have been found at the sites, and all three  include the remains of round towers known as brochs.
caption: Global overview of the distribution of brochs.
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