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The Exqeuisite archaeological site at Jarlshof on Shetland's Sumburgh Peninsula combines an iron age broch with Pictish wheelhouses, Viking longhouses and Scots blackhouses. In all, over 4,000 years of continual habitation are represented in the ruins and remarkably all these buildings entailed the importation of construction material - primarily timber - from Norway or elsewhere in the British Isles. This long history of reliance on an off-island supply of material continues today, and in sharing materials with the industrial buildings nearby the contractor for the Mareel, Lerwick firm DITT Construction, could make use of its experience in managing import lead-in times and the engagement of specialist contractors from mainland UK to keep the programme on track.