Scotland · Region
68 places in Aberdeenshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberdeenshire
The Brandsbutt Stone is a Class I Pictish symbol stone in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, a large block of whinstone bearing two incised Pictish symbols…
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
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…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
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…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
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…
Fortified place · Iron Age
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…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A rare surviving twelfth-century motte-and-bailey earthwork that served as the administrative heart of the medieval Garioch.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
It traces an unbroken Fraser connection from the fourteenth century through ruin and restoration back into family hands, a rare continuity among Ab…
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Few Scottish strongholds trace so clearly the arc from clan feud through Jacobite conflict to a government garrison policing the Highlands.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A sixteenth-century Burnett tower house whose rare Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings and 1702 Irish-yew topiary have survived largely intact in…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A rare surviving medieval Cistercian ruin in Buchan, carrying the name recorded in the margins of the celebrated Book of Deer.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Findlater Castle is a dramatically sited cliff-top Ogilvy stronghold caught up in the sixteenth-century power struggles of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Its ruined palace preserves some of the finest heraldic stone carving in Scotland alongside six centuries of the Gordon family's turbulent history.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
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.
Fortified place · Medieval
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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Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (17th century).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (16th century).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (16th century).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1783).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1492).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1736).
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1670).
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