Scotland · Region
29 places in Angus, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
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…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
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.
Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
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…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
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…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Angus
Radiocarbon dating shows the neighbouring Brown Caterthun was built and modified over several centuries in the latter half of the first millennium…
Fortified place · Medieval
Angus
A remarkably intact fifteenth-century tower house whose surviving oratory, complete with piscina, aumbry and holy-water stoup, preserves a rare med…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Angus
It is the reputed birthplace of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland's most celebrated assertion of national independence.
Sacred place · Medieval
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.
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
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…
Fortified place · Medieval
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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Minor monument · Medieval
Angus
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1600).
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