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
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Perth and Kinross
38 places in Perth and Kinross, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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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
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
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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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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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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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
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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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
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
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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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
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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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.
- Some walking
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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…
More places in Perth and Kinross
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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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
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
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
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
Village And Market Cross, Rossie
Perth and Kinross
Mercat cross with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1746).
- Easy path
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