Fortified place · Iron Age
Norman's Law Hillfort
Fife
Two concentric stone ramparts enclosing some four hectares — a community of real significance, not a watching post.
- Near Luthrie
- Rough ground
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Oak
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Birnam
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Capon Tree
Scottish Borders
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Jedburgh
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Fortingall Yew
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Fortingall
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Neil Gow's Oak
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Dunkeld
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Bickering Bush
East Ayrshire
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near East Ayrshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Sycamore
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Birnam
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Ding Dong tree
East Lothian
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near East Lothian
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Eppie Callum's Oak
Argyll and Bute
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Argyll and Bute
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Great Yew of Ormiston
East Lothian
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near East Lothian
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Katie Wearie's Tree
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Lady's Tree
Perth and Kinross
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Queen Mary's Thorn
Fife
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Fife
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Robert the Bruce Yew
Argyll and Bute
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Arrochar
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Balmerino Sweet Chestnut
Fife
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Balmerino
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Craigends Yew
Renfrewshire
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Last Ent of Affric
Highland
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Highland
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Skipinnish Oak
Highland
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Achnacarry
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Port Glasgow)
Inverclyde
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Inverclyde
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Torwood)
Falkirk
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Falkirk
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Yew (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdour Castle and Gardens
Fife
One of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland (alongside Castle Sween), expanded over ~400 years from a c.1200 hall house to a Renaiss…
- Near Aberdour
- 46 metres from car park
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberlemno Sculptured Stones
Angus
The stones were carved during the height of Pictish power in Angus, part of the kingdom later remembered as Fortriu. The Class I symbol stones carr…
- Near Aberlemno
- 31 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Achnabreck Cup and Ring Marks
Argyll and Bute
Achnabreck's rock surfaces were carved with cup and ring marks in prehistory — the purpose, and even the precise date, of the markings is uncertain…
- Near Lochgilphead
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Antonine Wall: Rough Castle
Falkirk
Rough Castle was built as a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, which dates from about AD 143. It stands against the southern rear face of the Wall, d…
- Near Bonnybridge
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballymeanoch Standing Stones and Henge
Argyll and Bute
Ballymeanoch is a complex of Neolithic structures in Kilmartin Glen: an avenue of two rows of standing stones (of four and two stones), a stone cir…
- Near Kilmartin
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Bearsden Roman Bath House
East Dunbartonshire
The Romans built a stone-and-turf fortification, the Antonine Wall, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth between AD 142 and 144 under…
- Near Bearsden
- 3 min walk from car park
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Fortified place · Roman
Birrens Roman Fort
Dumfries and Galloway
Several Roman camps lie near Birrens, at least one first occupied in the Flavian period from AD 79, probably during the Agricolan campaigns, when i…
- Near Middlebie
- 14 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Brandsbutt Stone
Aberdeenshire
The Brandsbutt Stone is a Class I Pictish symbol stone in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, a large block of whinstone bearing two incised Pictish symbols…
- Near Inverurie
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Broch of Gurness
Orkney Islands
Settlement on the site began sometime between 500 and 200 BC, when an Iron Age community raised a stone broch tower — once probably around 10 metre…
- Near Evie
- 141 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Mousa
Shetland Islands
The broch is thought to have been built around c. 300 BC, during the later Scottish Iron Age, as one of more than 500 brochs raised across Scotland.
- Near Sandwick
- 3.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Pictish & early medieval
Brough of Birsay
Orkney Islands
The earliest settlement on the tidal island is thought to date to the 6th century, perhaps by Christian missionaries.
- Near Birsay
- 625 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burghead Fort
Moray
Burghead was one of the earliest power centres of the Picts and, at 12.4 acres, was three times the size of any other enclosed site in Early Mediev…
- Near Burghead
- 30 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burnswark Hillfort and Roman Siege Camps
Dumfries and Galloway
An Iron Age hillfort enclosing some 7 hectares sat on the flat-topped basalt hill, alongside Iron Age roundhouses, an earlier Bronze Age burial cai…
- Near Ecclefechan
- 1.9 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cademuir Hill Fort
Scottish Borders
Two Iron Age forts crown the Cademuir ridge. The larger, Cademuir I, on the summit, enclosed about 2.25 ha within a single 3 m thick stone wall and…
- Near Peebles
- 2.3 km from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairn Holy is the site of two Neolithic chambered tombs of the Clyde type, raised on a hillside overlooking Wigtown Bay near Cairnholy Farm. The tw…
- Near Carsluith
- 207 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairnpapple Hill
West Lothian
Cairnpapple Hill, on a dominating summit 312 metres above sea level with views from coast to coast in central lowland Scotland, was used and re-use…
- Near Bathgate
- 264 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Calanais Standing Stones
Outer Hebrides
The Calanais Stones are a prehistoric stone circle and stone alignment on a low ridge above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis, built during the Neolit…
- Near Calanais
- 107 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cambuskenneth Abbey
Stirling
Cambuskenneth Abbey, a provostry of canons regular on land enclosed by a meander of the River Forth near Stirling, was founded by order of King Dav…
- Near Stirling
- 263 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Law, Dumyat
Stirling
Dumyat is a hill (418 metres) at the western extremity of the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, with two principal summits: Castle Law on the west a…
- Near Blairlogie
- 947 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Sween
Argyll and Bute
Castle Sween, on the eastern shore of Loch Sween in Knapdale, Argyll, is thought to be one of the earliest stone castles built in Scotland — and is…
- Near Achnamara
- 466 metres from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava Cairns
Highland
A Bronze Age funerary monument of the Inverness/Moray Firth communities; the three cairns and their stone circles appear to have been built as a si…
- Near Inverness
- 149 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Croft Moraig Stone Circle
Perth and Kinross
Croft Moraig is a complex multi-phase monument. Excavation in 1965 revealed three phases of construction: first a horseshoe of fourteen timber post…
- Near Kenmore
- 3.1 km from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
Cuween Hill is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Orkney Mainland, dating to around 3000 BC and built by Neolithic farmers as a burial place. It is…
- Near Finstown
- 270 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dryburgh Abbey
Scottish Borders
Dryburgh Abbey was nominally founded on 10 November (Martinmas) 1150 under an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, and the Pr…
- Near St Boswells
- 363 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumbarton Castle and Dumbarton Rock
West Dunbartonshire
Dumbarton Castle has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland. It sits on Dumbarton Rock, a basalt volcanic plug 240 feet (73 m)…
- Near Dumbarton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Carloway Broch
Outer Hebrides
Most brochs were built between 100 BC and 100 AD; Dun Carloway was probably built in the 1st century AD and remained in use through the centuries u…
- Near Carloway
- 208 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunadd Fort
Argyll and Bute
Dunadd is a hillfort in Argyll and Bute, occupied from the Iron Age and into the early medieval period, and believed to have been the capital of th…
- Near Kilmartin
- 237 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Dunchraigaig is an Early Bronze Age round cairn, about 30 m across, set a little apart to the south-east of the famous 2 km linear cemetery of cair…
- Near Kilmartin
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dunfermline Abbey
Fife
An earlier priory at Dunfermline dated back to the reign of Malcolm III (Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, 'Malcolm Canmore', reigned 1058–93) and his que…
- Near Dunfermline
- 2 min walk from car park
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunnottar Castle
Aberdeenshire
The Annals of Ulster record two sieges of 'Dún Foither' in 681 and 694, possibly the earliest written references to the site; the 681 attack has be…
- Near Stonehaven
- 8 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dwarfie Stane
Orkney Islands
The tomb was plundered at an unknown date by breaking an opening through the roof of the chamber; the hole had been noted by the 16th century and w…
- Near Rackwick
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dyce Symbol Stones
Aberdeen City
- Near Dyce
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Eassie Sculptured Stone
Angus
The cross-slab was carved about the mid-8th century AD. It was found in the bed of the Eassie Burn near Eassie Church by Rev. Cordiner around 1786.
- Near Glamis
- 117 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edin's Hall Broch, Fort and Settlement
Scottish Borders
The hilltop on the northeast slope of Cockburn Law was first fortified in the pre-Roman Iron Age, when double ramparts and ditches enclosed an oval…
- Near Duns
- 1.8 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eildon Hill North Hillfort
Scottish Borders
Excavation has shown the hillfort was occupied by 1000 BC, in the Bronze Age, with ramparts built and rebuilt in three phases. The 296 hut platform…
- Near Melrose
- 1.7 km from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Finlaggan, Eilean Mor
Argyll and Bute
In the first half of the 7th century a monastic community was established on Eilean Mor, the largest of the three islands in Loch Finlaggan — eithe…
- Near Port Askaig
- 520 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Grey Cairns of Camster
Highland
The two cairns were built in the third or fourth millennium BC — around 3,000 BC — making them among the oldest structures in Scotland. They are ex…
- Near Lybster
- 120 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hill o' Many Stanes
Highland
About 200 upright stones, none more than a metre high, are set in rows running roughly north-south down the slope at Mid Clyth. The rows are not pa…
- Near Lybster
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hownam Rings
Scottish Borders
C. M. Piggott's 1948 excavation at Hownam Rings became a landmark in the archaeology of northern Britain. It produced the 'Hownam model' (or 'Howna…
- Near Hownam
- 1.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Inchmahome Priory
Stirling
The priory was founded in 1238 by Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, for a small community of Augustinian canons (the Black Canons). There is some evi…
- Near Port of Menteith
- 998 metres from car park
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Iona Abbey
Argyll and Bute
Saint Columba came to Iona from Ireland with twelve companions in 563, founding a monastery when Iona was part of the Kingdom of Dál Riata. It beca…
- Near Baile Mor, Iona
- 1.8 km from car park
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Jarlshof
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the 17th century AD — Bronze Age o…
- Near Sumburgh
- 3 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Medieval
Jedburgh Abbey
Scottish Borders
In 1118, before his accession to the Scottish throne, Prince David established a foundation of Augustinian canons at Jedburgh. It rose from priory…
- Near Jedburgh
- 1 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Keills Chapel and Cross
Argyll and Bute
The chapel dates from the 11th century. Its now re-roofed structure houses an important collection of early stone sculpture, and the original Keill…
- Near Tayvallich
- 73 metres from car park
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kelso Abbey
Scottish Borders
Kelso Abbey was founded at Roxburgh in 1128 by Tironensian monks from Tiron, near Chartres in France. The community had first entered Scotland c. 1…
- Near Kelso
- 2 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Kildalton Cross and Chapel
Argyll and Bute
The high cross was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, in a workshop tradition closely related to the contemporary crosses on…
- Near Port Ellen
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Kilmory Knap Chapel
Argyll and Bute
The chapel was built in the 13th century. After its roof was lost the building was used as a burial enclosure, and it was re-roofed in 1934 to shel…
- Near Kilmory, Knapdale
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Laggangairn Standing Stones
Dumfries and Galloway
The two surviving stones were likely erected about 2000 BC. Tradition holds they were originally part of a circle of up to 14 stones; seven still r…
- Near New Luce
- 164 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Loanhead of Daviot Stone Circle
Aberdeenshire
The recumbent stone circle was constructed of granite in the early Bronze Age, with the recumbent stone set first; the earliest finds on site are N…
- Near Daviot
- 3 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
The chambered cairn was built around 2800 BC by Neolithic farming communities of central Orkney, associated with the Grooved ware pottery tradition…
- Near Stenness
- 1.6 km from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Maiden Stone
Aberdeenshire
The cross-slab was carved probably in the late 8th or early 9th century AD as a Class II Pictish monument, combining Christian and pre-Christian Pi…
- Near Inverurie
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Melrose Abbey
Scottish Borders
St Mary's Abbey, Melrose was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks at the request of King David I of Scotland — the first Cistercian abbey in Scotlan…
- Near Melrose
- 2 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
Midhowe is a Neolithic 'stalled' chambered cairn of the Orkney-Cromarty type, on the south shore of Rousay, Orkney. The cairn appears to have been…
- Near Rousay
- 10 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie South Chambered Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Nether Largie South is a Neolithic Clyde-type chambered cairn and the earliest monument in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery — the line of cairns…
- Near Kilmartin
- 7 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Picardy Symbol Stone
Aberdeenshire
The Picardy Symbol Stone is a Pictish symbol stone near Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Its carvings are dated to around AD 600, and it is a scheduled monum…
- Near Insch
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
Quoyness is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Elsness peninsula of Sanday, Orkney, of the Maeshowe type and probably built around 3000 BC. Origina…
- Near Sanday
- 20 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Restenneth Priory
Angus
Restenneth Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons founded by Jedburgh Abbey, under the patronage of King Malcolm IV of Scotland, in 1153…
- Near Forfar
- 3 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ri Cruin Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Ri Cruin is the most southerly cairn in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, a Bronze Age burial cairn built between roughly 2200 BC and 1950 BC.
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Ring of Brodgar
Orkney Islands
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle on the narrow isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray on Mainland, Orkney. It is…
- Near Stenness
- 5 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Ruthwell Cross
Dumfries and Galloway
The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, when Ruthwell — now in Scotland — was part of the Anglo-Saxon…
- Near Ruthwell
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Skara Brae
Orkney Islands
Ten roofless stone houses survive with their built-in furniture still in place — hearths, dressers, box-beds — occupied for roughly six hundred yea…
- Near Stromness
- 5 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Smailholm Tower
Scottish Borders
Smailholm Tower is a peel tower atop the crag of Lady Hill, around five miles west of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. It was built in the 15th or ea…
- Near Smailholm
- 1 min walk from car park
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Andrews Cathedral
Fife
The Cathedral of St Andrew was founded in 1158 to provide more accommodation than the older church of St Regulus (St Rule) afforded, and became the…
- Near St Andrews
- 6 min walk from car park
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Ninian's Cave
Dumfries and Galloway
The cave is a long-standing place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage through its association with the Scottish saint Ninian.
- Near Whithorn
- 25 min walk from car park
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
St Orland's Stone
Angus
The stone is a Class II Pictish cross-slab - worked Old Red Sandstone carved in relief on both faces, bearing Pictish symbols alongside a Christian…
- Near Forfar
- 15 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge
Orkney Islands
The Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument and may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles; radiocarbon dating indicates work on the sit…
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tap o' Noth Hillfort
Aberdeenshire
Tap o' Noth is a hillfort on the summit of its hill in Aberdeenshire - the second highest fort in Scotland - whose principal feature is a well-pres…
- Near Rhynie
- 50 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Tappoch Broch
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is an Iron Age broch set in a remote spot in dense woodland near Falkirk; the dry-stone walls, about six metres thick, still stand tw…
- Near Torwood
- 20 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Temple Wood Stone Circles
Argyll and Bute
Temple Wood, in Kilmartin Glen, comprises two stone circles - a northern and a southern circle. The southern circle's first incarnation may have be…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Torphichen Preceptory
West Lothian
The Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem were invited to Scotland in 1132 by David I, and the preceptory — their Scottish headq…
- Near Torphichen
- 1 min walk from car park
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Traprain Law
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
- Near East Linton
- 25 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tullibardine Chapel
Perth and Kinross
A large part of the chapel dates to 1446, when it was built by Sir David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine, of Tullibardine Castle, as a family chapel…
- Near Auchterarder
- 1 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
The chambered cairn was built sometime between about 3400 and 2800 BC (on the evidence of nearby tombs) as a Neolithic burial monument on a promont…
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
White Caterthun
Angus
Radiocarbon dating shows the neighbouring Brown Caterthun was built and modified over several centuries in the latter half of the first millennium…
- Near Brechin
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Whithorn Priory and Museum
Dumfries and Galloway
Whithorn was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland — Candida Casa, the 'White/Shining House' — built by Saint Ninian arou…
- Near Whithorn
- 1 min walk from car park
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Fortified place · Medieval
Abernethy Round Tower
Perth and Kinross
One of just two surviving round towers in Scotland, it preserves in a single Irish-style shaft the layered history of Abernethy's early monastery a…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Affleck Castle
Angus
A remarkably intact fifteenth-century tower house whose surviving oratory, complete with piscina, aumbry and holy-water stoup, preserves a rare med…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Alloa Tower
Clackmannanshire
One of Scotland's oldest and largest surviving tower houses, Alloa Tower preserves a rare medieval timber roof and centuries of association with th…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Arbroath Abbey
Angus
It is the reputed birthplace of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland's most celebrated assertion of national independence.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardvreck Castle
Highland
A remote Highland tower house whose surrender of the Marquess of Montrose in 1650 ties this lochside ruin to one of the defining episodes of Scotla…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Armadale Castle
Highland
Armadale Castle is the historic seat of Clan Donald, whose Lordship of the Isles once ruled much of Scotland's western seaboard, and today anchors…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Balgonie Castle
Fife
Balgonie Castle preserves a rare fourteenth-century Fife tower house that was rescued from ruin and returned to use through a decades-long private…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Balmerino Abbey
Fife
It is the ruined shell of a royal Cistercian foundation, established from Melrose in the 1220s under the patronage of Ermengarde de Beaumont, queen…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Balvaird Castle
Perth and Kinross
An unusually refined late-fifteenth-century tower house whose carved detail marks it out among Scottish castles of its date.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bass of Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
A rare surviving twelfth-century motte-and-bailey earthwork that served as the administrative heart of the medieval Garioch.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Blackness Castle
Falkirk
One of Scotland's great artillery fortresses, Blackness served for centuries as a royal state prison and garrison guarding the Firth of Forth.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Blair Castle
Perth and Kinross
For over seven centuries Blair Castle has been the stronghold of the Earls and Dukes of Atholl, and it remains home to the Atholl Highlanders, repu…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Borthwick Castle
Midlothian
One of Scotland's most imposing and well-preserved medieval tower houses, Borthwick sheltered Mary, Queen of Scots during her flight of 1567 and st…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Braemar Castle
Aberdeenshire
Braemar Castle carries the full arc of Highland Jacobite history — built to police a clan, burned in the 1689 rising, then turned into a government…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Brechin Cathedral
Angus
It preserves one of only two surviving Irish-style round towers in Scotland, set beside a medieval cathedral and rare 11th-century carved stones.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Brodick Castle
North Ayrshire
Brodick Castle traces an unusually complete arc from a Bruce-era fortress through Hamilton tower house and Cromwellian garrison to a Victorian duca…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Broughty Castle
Dundee City
A much-fought-over tower house guarding the Tay estuary, later rebuilt as a Victorian coastal fort and now a museum of Dundee's military and mariti…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Buittle Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Buittle Castle ties Galloway to the Balliol dynasty across several centuries, from Dervorguilla and a king of Scots to the college at Oxford that s…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Burleigh Castle
Perth and Kinross
A late-medieval Balfour tower house whose royal visitors and Jacobite-tinged family history trace the changing fortunes of a Scottish laird's line.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caerlaverock Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Its rare triangular moated plan, unique among British castles, encloses four centuries of Maxwell power and border warfare, from Edward I's siege o…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cairnbulg Castle
Aberdeenshire
It traces an unbroken Fraser connection from the fourteenth century through ruin and restoration back into family hands, a rare continuity among Ab…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cardoness Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
A well-preserved late-medieval tower house whose story of feud, execution and folklore captures the turbulent world of the Galloway lairds.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Carsluith Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Its owners' stubborn Catholic loyalty, embodied by Gilbert Brown, the last abbot of Sweetheart Abbey, makes this Galloway tower house a window onto…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Campbell
Clackmannanshire
A well-preserved tower house and Renaissance residence that served as a Lowland seat of the Campbell Earls of Argyll, one of Scotland's most powerf…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Fraser
Aberdeenshire
Castle Fraser is regarded as one of the most elaborate surviving examples of the Scottish Z-plan tower house, its long 1575–1636 build preserving t…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Law, Abernethy
Perth and Kinross
A scheduled-monument hillfort crowning the hill above Abernethy, one of medieval Scotland's seats of the Earls of Fife and Clan MacDuff.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Law, Forgandenny
Perth and Kinross
A nationally scheduled hillfort whose double classification — contour fort and multiple-enclosure fort — preserves an unusually layered set of anci…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Menzies
Perth and Kinross
It is the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies and a rare surviving sixteenth-century Z-plan tower house, rescued from decline and restored by the cl…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle of Mey
Highland
Rescued from dereliction by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1952, this sixteenth-century Sinclair tower house is one of Scotland's most norther…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Castle Semple Collegiate Church
Renfrewshire
A rare surviving example of a small Scottish collegiate church, founded by the Sempill lords and still sheltering the tomb of one who fell at Flodden.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Stalker
Argyll and Bute
A rare surviving west-Highland tower house set on its own tidal islet, whose ownership passed between the Stewarts of Appin and the Campbells befor…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Tioram
Highland
Castle Tioram is the ancestral stronghold of Clanranald, deliberately burned by its own chief in 1715 to deny it to Hanoverian forces and left a ru…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cawdor Castle
Highland
One of Scotland's enduring inhabited castles, Cawdor grew from a medieval Highland tower into the seat of the Thanes of Cawdor and carries a litera…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cessford Castle
Scottish Borders
It was the principal stronghold of the Kerr family, among the most notorious of the Border Reivers, and its massive walls survive as a striking rec…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Claypotts Castle
Dundee City
It is one of Scotland's best-preserved 16th-century Z-plan tower houses, complete enough to show clearly how such a fortified residence was designed.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Comlongon Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
An exceptionally complete red sandstone tower house that preserves the Royal Arms of Scotland above its hearth and a dozen chambers built into the…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Corgarff Castle
Aberdeenshire
Few Scottish strongholds trace so clearly the arc from clan feud through Jacobite conflict to a government garrison policing the Highlands.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craigievar Castle
Aberdeenshire
One of the best-preserved and most admired tower houses in Scotland, Craigievar is a refined expression of the Scottish Baronial style and has stoo…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craigmillar Castle
City of Edinburgh
Craigmillar is one of Scotland's best-preserved medieval castles and is closely tied to the story of Mary, Queen of Scots and the plot against Lord…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crail Castle
Fife
Crail Castle was a medieval royal residence and the administrative heart of one of Fife's ancient royal burghs, though almost nothing of it now sur…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crathes Castle
Aberdeenshire
A sixteenth-century Burnett tower house whose rare Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings and 1702 Irish-yew topiary have survived largely intact in…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crichton Castle
Midlothian
A Border-country stronghold whose plain outer walls conceal a rare Italian Renaissance courtyard facade, and whose owners shaped some of Scotland's…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crookston Castle
Glasgow City
It was the first property ever taken into the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and ranks as the second-oldest building in Glasgow after its…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cruggleton Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
It preserves the fragmentary remains of a medieval Galloway stronghold whose owners span the Lords of Galloway, the Comyns and the priory of Whithorn.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dairsie Castle
Fife
A stronghold of the bishops of St Andrews that hosted a medieval Scottish parliament and sheltered the young James VI, later rebuilt from ruin.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Deer Abbey
Aberdeenshire
A rare surviving medieval Cistercian ruin in Buchan, carrying the name recorded in the margins of the celebrated Book of Deer.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dornoch Cathedral
Highland
It has served as a place of worship for eight centuries, from the seat of the medieval Bishops of Caithness to a working Church of Scotland parish…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Drochil Castle
Scottish Borders
An ambitious, never-completed retirement palace of Regent Morton, whose rare double-tenement plan makes it one of the more unusual late-sixteenth-c…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Drum Castle
Aberdeenshire
Drum Castle preserves one of Scotland's three oldest and least-altered medieval tower houses, held by a single family for over six and a half centu…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Drumlanrig Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
A rare pink-sandstone Renaissance palace built for the 1st Duke of Queensberry, holding part of the Buccleuch art collection with works by Rembrand…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duart Castle
Argyll and Bute
The medieval stronghold and ancestral seat of Clan MacLean, reclaimed and restored by the clan's chief in 1911 after more than a century as a ruin.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duffus Castle
Moray
Duffus Castle shows the rise and fall of a Norman-founded Moray lordship, from a twelfth-century timber motte to a stone tower undone by the very m…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunbar Castle
East Lothian
One of Scotland's most fought-over border fortresses, defended by Black Agnes against an English siege and later tied to the downfall of Mary, Quee…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dunblane Cathedral
Stirling
A largely thirteenth-century cathedral whose ruined nave was rescued and re-roofed after three centuries of decay, it preserves both medieval fabri…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dundrennan Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
A Cistercian foundation of 1142 whose ruins are remembered above all as the place where Mary, Queen of Scots is said to have spent her last night i…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunkeld Cathedral
Perth and Kinross
For over a thousand years Dunkeld has been a centre of Christian worship in Scotland, and its half-ruined cathedral traces that story from Columban…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunrobin Castle
Highland
Dunrobin is the ancestral seat of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland and, at 189 rooms, the largest house in the northern Highlands, its Scottish Ba…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunscaith Castle
Highland
A ruined clan stronghold on Skye whose very name preserves its role in Gaelic and Irish legend as the fortress of the warrior-teacher Scathach.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duntrune Castle
Argyll and Bute
By tradition the oldest continuously occupied castle on mainland Scotland, Duntrune joins thirteenth-century MacDougall walls to a seventeenth-cent…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Earl's Palace, Birsay
Orkney Islands
It is the ruined seat of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, an illegitimate son of James V, and a rare surviving example of a fortified sixteenth-…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edinburgh Castle
City of Edinburgh
One of Scotland's most important strongholds and a seat of royal power for centuries, Edinburgh Castle claims to be the most besieged place in Grea…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edzell Castle and Garden
Angus
Edzell's walled garden of 1604, ringed with carved panels of the planetary deities, liberal arts and cardinal virtues, is unique in Scotland and am…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eilean Donan Castle
Highland
It is one of Scotland's most recognisable castles, a thirteenth-century Highland stronghold destroyed in the 1719 Jacobite rising and painstakingly…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elibank Castle
Scottish Borders
A late-16th-century Borders fortified house whose Italianate terraced gardens, laid out after the Union of the Crowns, were counted among the grand…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ethie Castle
Angus
It is a rare medieval castle continuously inhabited from monastic origins through cardinal, earls and clan chief, carrying with it the memory of Ca…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Falkland Palace
Fife
Falkland Palace was a favoured Renaissance residence of the Stewart kings, where James V died and his royal tennis court still stands as the oldest…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fast Castle
Scottish Borders
A dramatically sited Borders stronghold whose repeated changes of hand trace the long violence of the Anglo-Scottish frontier, and whose ruins are…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fatlips Castle
Scottish Borders
A sixteenth-century Border peel tower whose story runs from the region's turbulent reiving past through to its Victorian revival as a shooting lodg…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Finavon Castle
Angus
It preserves the seat of the Lindsay Earls of Crawford, among medieval Angus's foremost noble families, from their rise in 1375 to the loss of the…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Findlater Castle
Aberdeenshire
Findlater Castle is a dramatically sited cliff-top Ogilvy stronghold caught up in the sixteenth-century power struggles of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Floors Castle
Scottish Borders
Floors Castle is a Category A listed house whose Georgian core by William Adam and romantic Victorian remodelling by William Henry Playfair togethe…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fort George
Highland
It is one of the finest and most complete artillery fortifications in Europe, built to secure the Highlands after the 1745 rising and still in mili…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fyvie Castle
Aberdeenshire
Fyvie Castle preserves five centuries of Scottish baronial building in a single structure, each of its towers raised by a different family who held…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glamis Castle
Angus
Home of the Lyon family since the fourteenth century, Glamis binds a medieval tower house to royal births, a notorious witchcraft trial and some of…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow City
It is the oldest cathedral on the Scottish mainland and one of only two medieval Scottish cathedrals to survive the Reformation virtually intact.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glebe Cairn
Argyll and Bute
The northernmost cairn in Kilmartin Glen's Bronze Age linear cemetery, one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric ritual and burial monuments…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glenbuchat Castle
Aberdeenshire
Glenbuchat is a well-preserved late sixteenth-century Z-plan tower house that records both the domestic ambitions and the defensive instincts of Ab…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Glenluce Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
It preserves the story of a Cistercian house whose lands and manuscripts became prizes in the power struggles that followed the Scottish Reformation.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenknowe Tower
Scottish Borders
A rare, largely intact survival of a small Borders laird's tower house that still retains its original iron yett and datestone, offering a vivid pi…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hailes Castle
East Lothian
One of Scotland's oldest stone castles, its Hepburn owners bound it to the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hermitage Castle
Scottish Borders
A brooding Border stronghold whose walls witnessed centuries of frontier warfare, treachery and the famous ride of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hoddom Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Hoddom traces the arc of a Border stronghold — from a besieged sixteenth-century tower fought over during Mary, Queen of Scots' wars to a derelict…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holyrood Abbey
City of Edinburgh
A royal abbey where Scottish monarchs were crowned, married and buried, and where medieval parliaments and treaties helped shape the nation's history.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntingtower Castle
Perth and Kinross
Huntingtower was the setting for the 1582 Raid of Ruthven, when Scottish nobles seized the young King James VI, and its closely paired towers gave…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntly Castle
Aberdeenshire
Its ruined palace preserves some of the finest heraldic stone carving in Scotland alongside six centuries of the Gordon family's turbulent history.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inchcolm Abbey
Fife
It preserves the most complete surviving remains of any Scottish monastic house, on an island long tied to the early Scottish crown.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Inchtuthil / Castra Pinnata
Scotland
It is one of Roman Scotland's genuine geographical puzzles — a place named by Ptolemy that scholars have spent a century trying, and failing, to pi…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inveraray Castle
Argyll and Bute
One of the earliest and most complete expressions of Gothic Revival architecture in Scotland, and the continuous seat of the Dukes of Argyll and Cl…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inverlochy Castle
Highland
One of Scotland's earliest and best-preserved stone castles of enclosure, its regular thirteenth-century plan survives largely as the Comyns built it.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inverness Castle
Highland
It marks a site fortified for close to a thousand years and bound up with pivotal moments of Highland and Scottish history, from Robert the Bruce t…
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Carved stone · Medieval
Kilberry Sculptured Stones
Argyll and Bute
A surviving group of late medieval cross-slabs and grave markers rescued from a lost parish church, now protected as a scheduled monument in the gr…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kildrummy Castle
Aberdeenshire
As the medieval seat of the Earls of Mar and the scene of two significant sieges in the Wars of Scottish Independence, Kildrummy is one of eastern…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kilwinning Abbey
North Ayrshire
One of Scotland's early Tironensian monasteries, its ruined medieval church and later clock tower anchor the North Ayrshire town that took the abbe…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kirkmadrine Church and Burial-ground
Dumfries and Galloway
Kirkmadrine preserves some of the earliest Christian inscribed stones in Scotland, marking one of the country's oldest known Christian communities…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Lincluden Collegiate Church
Dumfries and Galloway
It preserves a rare double history — a twelfth-century Galloway nunnery displaced by a richly carved Douglas collegiate church — with the tomb of a…
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Settlement · Medieval
Lochleven Castle
Perth and Kinross
This island stronghold was the prison from which Mary, Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate before her dramatic escape in 1568.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lochmaben Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Few Border strongholds trace the whole arc of the medieval Anglo-Scottish wars as directly as Lochmaben, held in turn by the Bruces of Annandale, t…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lochranza Castle
North Ayrshire
A modest fortified tower house that carries four centuries of Scottish royal and noble history on the Isle of Arran, from the medieval Stewarts thr…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Luffness Castle
East Lothian
It preserves a rare occupied medieval tower house whose grounds still bear the trace of a 1549 Franco-Scottish fort thrown up during the Rough Wooing.
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Fortified place · Medieval
MacDuff's Castle
Fife
A fragmentary but evocative coastal ruin whose towers trace six centuries of Fife's ruling families, from the MacDuff earls to the Wemyss lairds.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morton Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
A rare triangular medieval castle guarding the strategic Nith valley, later a Douglas hunting lodge and now a Scheduled Ancient Monument beside its…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mote of Mark
Dumfries and Galloway
A rare early medieval power centre where a lord held sway as a master craftsman, its imported glass, pottery and Mediterranean wine amphora showing…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Motte of Urr
Dumfries and Galloway
It preserves the twelfth-century earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle that served as the administrative heart, or caput, of the medieval barony…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Muness Castle
Shetland Islands
As the most northerly fortified residence in the British Isles, Muness marks the furthest reach of late sixteenth-century Scottish tower-house buil…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Neidpath Castle
Scottish Borders
A well-preserved medieval L-plan tower house above the Tweed, Neidpath binds the Fraser and Hay families and carries centuries of Borders history,…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Argyll and Bute
It forms a central link in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, one of Scotland's most concentrated groupings of prehistoric burial monuments.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie North Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Its carved capstone, marked with dozens of cup-marks and ten axe-head symbols, makes it one of the most vividly decorated Bronze Age burial monumen…
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Fortified place · Medieval
New Slains Castle
Aberdeenshire
A cliff-top seat of the Earls of Erroll for over three hundred years, its Scots Baronial ruin now weathering above the North Sea.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newbattle Abbey
Midlothian
One of Scotland's earliest Cistercian houses and a pioneer of Scottish coal mining, Newbattle survives as a monastic core absorbed into a still-wor…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Noltland Castle
Orkney Islands
One of Orkney's finest surviving tower houses, a heavily gun-looped Z-plan castle built by a courtier of Mary, Queen of Scots, and left unfinished…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Normandykes
Aberdeen City
As a large Roman marching camp near Aberdeen, it marks one stage of Rome's military advance into north-east Scotland.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Orchardton Tower
Dumfries and Galloway
Orchardton Tower is the only cylindrical tower house in Scotland, a rare survival of a round form that had otherwise vanished from Scottish castle-…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Paisley Abbey
Renfrewshire
Paisley Abbey is the burial place of the High Stewards and the birthplace of Robert II, binding it directly to the Stewart dynasty that would come…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Preston Tower, East Lothian
East Lothian
A layered tower house whose defensive medieval keep was crowned with Renaissance living quarters, then burnt repeatedly across a century of Scottis…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Repentance Tower
Dumfries and Galloway
A rare surviving Border beacon-tower, Repentance Tower embodies the sixteenth-century warning system that watched the western Marches for English i…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Roslin Castle
Midlothian
A Sinclair stronghold whose fifteenth-century scriptorium preserved the earliest surviving work of Scots prose, standing beside the famous Rosslyn…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Rosslyn Chapel
Midlothian
A mid-15th-century Sinclair foundation whose densely carved choir is counted among the finest medieval stonework in Scotland.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Roxburgh Castle
Scottish Borders
One of the most fiercely contested strongholds of the Anglo-Scottish frontier, and the place where King James II of Scotland was killed by his own…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Sanquhar Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
It preserves the story of a medieval Dumfriesshire stronghold whose lavish royal welcome in 1617 ruined the family that held it.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Scalloway Castle
Shetland Islands
It is the imposing tower-house of Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, whose harsh rule over Shetland ended on the scaffold, and it served as the m…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Scone Palace / Scone Abbey
Perth and Kinross
Scone was the coronation place of Scotland's medieval kings and the home of the Stone of Scone, making it one of the nation's foremost royal and re…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Scotstarvit Tower
Fife
A rare survival among Scottish tower houses, standing near-complete rather than ruined and tied to the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Inglis an…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Seagate Castle
North Ayrshire
It is a rare surviving sixteenth-century urban town house of a leading Ayrshire noble family, linked by tradition to a visit from Mary, Queen of Sc…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Seton Collegiate Church
East Lothian
A rare and unusually intact survival of a Scottish collegiate church, its choir and transepts left frozen mid-construction by the Reformation and s…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Sorbie Tower
Dumfries and Galloway
Sorbie Tower is the ancient seat of Clan Hannay — a late-sixteenth-century L-plan tower house that fell to ruin for two centuries before being retu…
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Fortified place · Medieval
St Andrews Castle
Fife
It is one of Scotland's most storied castles, residence of the bishops of the medieval church capital and a flashpoint of the Reformation, where Ca…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Blane's Church
Argyll and Bute
One of Scotland's more complete early monastic sites, it preserves a sequence running from a sixth-century Celtic foundation through a Norse-era ru…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Giles' Cathedral
City of Edinburgh
For centuries the principal church of Edinburgh and a crucible of the Scottish Reformation, St Giles' is crowned by one of only two surviving medie…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Machar's Cathedral
Aberdeen City
It is Aberdeen's oldest place of Christian worship on a site of tradition, and one of Scotland's few granite medieval cathedrals, preserving a rema…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
Orkney Islands
As the only wholly medieval cathedral surviving in Scotland, it preserves nearly nine centuries of Norse and Scottish religious history in remarkab…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore
Argyll and Bute
It preserves the much-reduced remains of the cathedral of the medieval diocese of Argyll, rooted in a monastery traced to the sixth-century saint M…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Queran's Well
Dumfries and Galloway
It is a rare example of a Scottish holy well where votive offerings, recovered coins dating back to 1560 and ribbons tied to bushes, show an unbrok…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Sweetheart Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
It is one of Scotland's most evocative Cistercian ruins, founded and named for a widow's lifelong devotion to her husband's embalmed heart.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tantallon Castle
East Lothian
It is the last of Scotland's great medieval curtain-wall castles, a red-sandstone stronghold of the powerful Douglas earls that endured repeated si…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Threave Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
An island stronghold of the Black Douglases, Threave was among the last great seats of that family to fall to the crown, and its early gun defences…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tibbers Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
A stone castle first documented in 1298, Tibbers passed repeatedly between English and Scottish hands during the Wars of Independence, changing sid…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tolquhon Castle
Aberdeenshire
A well-preserved example of a Scots Renaissance courtyard mansion, built more for domestic comfort and display than for defence.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tongland Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
One of Galloway's medieval Premonstratensian abbeys, remembered chiefly for its notorious alchemist-abbot John Damian and now surviving only as fra…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Traquair House
Scottish Borders
Claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, its walls trace an unbroken line from a medieval royal hunting seat through the S…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Urquhart Castle
Highland
One of Scotland's great medieval strongholds, Urquhart guarded the Great Glen through the Wars of Independence and centuries of Highland conflict b…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yester Castle
East Lothian
Its subterranean Goblin Ha' is a rare surviving example of medieval Gothic vaulting, wrapped in centuries of local legend about its wizard builder.
More places
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Bruce Tree
West Dunbartonshire
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Clackmannan Mercat Cross
Clackmannanshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1680).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Ayton Castle
Scottish Borders
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1745).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Balbegno Castle
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (17th century).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Barnyards Of Findlater
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (16th century).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Carloonan, Inveraray Castle Estate
Argyll and Bute
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1747).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Creich Castle
Fife
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1723).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Denbie
Dumfries and Galloway
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1775).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Fetteresso Castle
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (16th century).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Kilravock Castle
Highland
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1460).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Kirkgate, Chirnside
Scottish Borders
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (16th century).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Mains Of Edzell
Angus
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1600).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Megginch Castle
Perth and Kinross
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1783).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Wormistone House
Fife
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (17th century).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Gate Piers And Twin Dovecots, East Lodge, Balcaskie House
Fife
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1714).
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross And Medieval Village, East Preston
Dumfries and Galloway
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (medieval).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Bank Street, Inverkeithing
Fife
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1688).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Castle Street, Aberdeen
Aberdeen City
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1686).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Church Street, Cromarty
Highland
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1578).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Church Street, Macduff
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1783).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Drumlanrig Street, Thornhill
Dumfries and Galloway
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1714).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, High Street, Airth
Falkirk
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1697).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Main Street, Longforgan
Perth and Kinross
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1648).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Market Square, Melrose
Scottish Borders
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1645).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Old Rayne
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1492).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Prestwick
South Ayrshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1777).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Saltoun Square, Fraserburgh
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1736).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Cross, Culross
Fife
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1588).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Cross, Doune
Stirling
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1620).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Square, Cumnock
East Ayrshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1703).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Square, Fettercairn
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1670).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Mercat Cross, Kettins
Perth and Kinross
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (pre-Reformation).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Ogston Market Cross, Michael Kirk, Gordonstoun
Moray
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1705).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Perth Mercat Cross, Fingask Castle
Perth and Kinross
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1153).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
The Old Market Cross, Greenlaw
Scottish Borders
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1609).
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Village And Market Cross, Rossie
Perth and Kinross
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1746).
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bothwell Castle
South Lanarkshire
Bothwell was among the most ambitious stone castles of thirteenth-century Scotland, and its ruins record a century of siege, slighting and rebuildi…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burton Fleming (archaeological site)
East Riding of Yorkshire
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Sacred place · Medieval
Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist, Morwenstow
Cornwall
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Sacred place · Medieval
Church of the Holy Rude
Stirling
It is one of very few churches in Britain to have witnessed a coronation, that of James VI in 1567, and preserves a rare medieval burgh church in n…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Crossraguel Abbey
South Ayrshire
One of Scotland's most complete surviving medieval monastic complexes, founded in 1244 and preserving the full plan of a Cluniac abbey.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Culzean Castle
South Ayrshire
One of Robert Adam's finest country houses, Culzean pairs a cliff-top Firth of Clyde setting with interiors that helped define the Scottish neoclas…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Doune Castle
Stirling
A remarkably complete late-medieval Scottish castle built by one of the most powerful nobles of his day, later a royal residence and a witness to t…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dundonald Castle
South Ayrshire
A rare surviving royal residence of the early Stewart kings, built to mark Robert II's accession in 1371 on a hilltop fortified since prehistory.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunure Castle
South Ayrshire
It was the ancient seat of the Kennedys and the scene of the notorious 1570 roasting of Crossraguel Abbey's commendator, one of the darker episodes…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenan Castle
South Ayrshire
Greenan Castle preserves layered defences from prehistoric fort to medieval tower on a single dramatic cliff-top site, and its walls witnessed one…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Linlithgow Palace
West Lothian
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo
Isle of Anglesey
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
Cheshire West and Chester
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog
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Stirling Castle
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Stirling Castle holds the finest surviving Renaissance royal architecture in the British Isles, raised by the Stewart kings on a crag that commande…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Turnberry Castle
South Ayrshire
Turnberry was the boyhood home of Robert the Bruce and a stage in his campaign to reclaim the Scottish crown.
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