Hollanders' Knowe
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Located near the Scalloway junction, on the main A970 just south of Lerwick, the Hollanders' Knowe was the site of a ramshackle village of shacks and tents which appeared every year at the height of the visiting Dutch Buss fishing fleet to Bressay Sound, for the herring fishery in the late 16th, but mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Hollanders' Knowe acted as a trading centre for locals to sell goods to the visitors. Dutch reports about their fishermen trading imported goods for knitware (esp. stockings) belong to the oldest reports about an existing kind of "knitting industry" in Shetland.
The Hollanders' Knowe was a logical place for a trading post as it was also easily accessible from Scalloway, where fishing crews also came ashore, Scalloway being the capital of Shetland at the start of the Dutch Buss fishery.
