Survey work has been continued by Archaeology Shetland, a local community archaeology group, who have recorded a wide range of archaeological features in close proximity to the quarries. The LPP will explore the wider archaeological landscape of North Roe, providing a social context to the felsite quarry sites and later stages of felsite tool production.

More specifically, the project will establish a chronology for stone-built structures situated in close proximity to Neolithic felsite quarries on North Roe (Figure 1 A and B), and explore the organisation of tool exploitation and manufacture in the landscape. North Roe is a complex archaeological landscape with evidence of activity throughout the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Recent material from excavations at the quarries have yielded early to middle Neolithic dates, and a similar date is hypothesised for the structures based on their situation below the peat, their similarity to structures elsewhere on Shetland, and due to the presence of felsite in the surviving walls. The project will focus on four structures in close proximity to felsite dykes and quarries on North Roe. These structures are substantial, and in some cases multi-roomed, stone constructions situated at high elevations in exposed landscapes. They are also very well preserved.