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
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Highland
65 places in Highland, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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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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…
More places in Highland
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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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
Market Cross, Church Street, Cromarty
Highland
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1578).
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