[{SlideShowNav}] !!!Jarlshof [{Image src='Shetland Inseln (10).jpg' caption='Wheelhouse, 2013\\© Elisabeth Ertl' alt='Wheelhouse at Jarlshof' height='800' width='532' class='image_left'}] \\A new kind of structure, called wheelhouse, was introduced at Jarlshof [{GoogleMap location='Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement, Shetland, Großbritannien und Nordirland' zoom='12'}] in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. As the name implies the building was a round house with its roof supported by radial piers, which were arranged like the spokes of a wheel. [{Metadata Suchbegriff=' ' Kontrolle='Nein'}]