Sacred place · Medieval
Inis Cathaigh
County Clare
Inis Cathaigh, or Scattery Island, preserves a major early Christian monastery, round tower and later military battery at the strategic mouth of th…
- Near Kilrush
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntly Castle
Aberdeenshire
Four successive castles rose on this one riverside site, each rebuilt by the Gordons after fire, siege or royal demolition: a single ruin holding f…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Donnington Castle
Berkshire
Its lone three-storey gatehouse survived only because Parliament's 1646 demolition order stopped short, the price of an 18-month Royalist siege tha…
- Near Newbury
- 250 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Denny Abbey
Cambridgeshire
Three unrelated religious orders in turn occupied the same buildings, and a countess who founded a Cambridge college is buried somewhere beneath th…
- Near Waterbeach
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bryn Celli Ddu
isle-of-anglesey
A tomb reached by a stone-lined passage, built around 2000 BC by smashing the stone circle that stood here first, and aligned so midsummer sunrise…
- Near Llanddaniel Fab
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Fortified place · Medieval
King John's Castle (Kilmallock)
County Limerick
A fifteenth-century tower house whose name borrows the prestige of Limerick's grander castle, now pierced clean through by a single large Gothic arch.
- Near Kilmallock
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
The Pipers, St Buryan
Cornwall
The Pipers near St Buryan are two exceptionally tall standing stones aligned toward the Merry Maidens, preserving a distinctive component of Penwit…
- Near St Buryan
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Skellig Michael
County Kerry
A monastery of dry-stone beehive cells on a bare Atlantic crag, eleven kilometres out and six hundred steps up, built by monks who chose the least…
- Near Portmagee
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stonehenge
Wiltshire
Its bluestones were hauled some 150 miles from Wales, and its Altar Stone has now been traced to Scotland, 700 km away: proof of a Neolithic (the f…
- Near Amesbury
- 2.4 km from car park
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Pictish & early medieval
Sutton Hoo
Suffolk
The richest burial ever found in Britain: a 27-metre ship dragged up from the river and buried whole, with a helmet, gold shoulder-clasps and a pur…
- Near Woodbridge
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norman's Law Hillfort
Fife
Two concentric stone ramparts enclosing roughly four hectares mark this as a hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) community of…
- Near St Andrews
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Elgin Cathedral
Moray
Known as the Lantern of the North, it was Scotland's second-largest medieval cathedral and uniquely combined an English-style octagonal chapter hou…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Oak
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Oak, sometimes known as Macbeth's Oak, stands on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Capon Tree
Scottish Borders
Concrete, brick and timber now hold together a sessile oak reckoned at about a thousand years old: one of the last trees of the Jedforest, and the…
- Near Jedburgh
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Fortingall Yew
Perth and Kinross
Fortingall Yew is a named yew tree beside the church at Fortingall in Perth and Kinross. Its precise age is not independently confirmed here.
- Near Fortingall
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Neil Gow's Oak
Perth and Kinross
A bench beneath this oak was engraved with a line from a Michael Marra song about sitting under it with Niel Gow's ghost. A falling branch destroye…
- Near Dunkeld
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Sacred place · Medieval
Strata Florida Abbey
Ceredigion
A Cistercian abbey (a monastic house under the rule of an abbot) founded in 1164 that became a dynastic burial place, a centre for Welsh chronicles…
- Near Pontrhydfendigaid
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Medieval
Bewcastle Cross
Cumbria
A near-complete Northumbrian cross carved with figures, runes and one of England's earliest sundials, still standing where it was first raised some…
- Near Bewcastle
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Glamis Manse Stone
Angus
One of the most crowded cross faces in Pictish sculpture: axe-fighters, a cauldron with legs dangling from it, and a centaur share the stone with a…
- Easy path
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Bickering Bush
East Ayrshire
Bickering Bush preserves the memory of a named hawthorn, its lost site tied to Caprington Castle lands and Wallace tradition.
- Near East Ayrshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Sycamore
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Sycamore stands near Birnam Oak on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Ding Dong tree
East Lothian
The Ding Dong tree is a copper beech that became a school landmark, won Scotland’s Tree of the Year and shaped children’s outdoor life.
- Near East Lothian
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Great Yew of Ormiston
East Lothian
The Great Yew of Ormiston is a layering yew first recorded in 1474 and regarded as a significant surviving tree in Scotland.
- Near East Lothian
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Katie Wearie's Tree
Perth and Kinross
Katie Wearie’s Tree was a named Linlithgow memorial to a drover girl, preserved in an early twentieth-century postcard even though little else is k…
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree
Lady's Tree
Perth and Kinross
An osprey called Lady nested in this Scots pine for twenty-four years, laid 71 eggs and raised 50 chicks. The tree is named after the bird.
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Queen Mary's Thorn
Fife
Queen Mary’s Thorn keeps royal memory alive in St Andrews through a living tree, while the absence of contemporary evidence makes its famous planti…
- Near Fife
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Balmerino Sweet Chestnut
Fife
The Balmerino Sweet Chestnut makes former monastic grounds a record of living heritage: inventory data, exceptional girth and national tree designa…
- Near Balmerino
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Craigends Yew
Renfrewshire
A yew that has cloned itself into a grove: branches bending to the ground, rooting, and sending up new stems, until the crown reached a hundred met…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Last Ent of Affric
Highland
An elm that outlived both the forest around it and the disease that took most of its kind, saved by standing somewhere nothing would sensibly have…
- Near Highland
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Ancient tree · Medieval
The Skipinnish Oak
Highland
A four-hundred-year-old oak that nobody knew was there. It took a ceilidh band, a woodland conference and a walk the morning after the gig for the…
- Near Achnacarry
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
By the mid-nineteenth century a Scotsman's snuff box was expected to contain a fragment of this oak. The relic trade is what killed it.
- Near Renfrewshire
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Port Glasgow)
Inverclyde
Although the Wallace story cannot be confirmed, the lost oak’s storm-felled remains and memorial show how a local legend became durable civic memory.
- Near Inverclyde
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Oak (Torwood)
Falkirk
The lost Wallace Oak shows how a woodland landmark became a national relic, its unproven Wallace tradition driving souvenir cutting and an unusuall…
- Near Falkirk
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Wallace Yew (Elderslie)
Renfrewshire
Parish records of the 1700s already call it 'this ancient tree'. Arson in 1978 and storms in 2005 let in a fungus that is now killing it; twelve cu…
- Near Renfrewshire
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aberdour Castle and Gardens
Fife
Aberdour Castle and Gardens combine one of Scotland’s oldest datable standing castles with a 400-year architectural sequence and terraced gardens t…
- 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 (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) power in A…
- Near Aberlemno
- 31 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Achnabreck Cup and Ring Marks
Argyll and Bute
One of the densest and most elaborate concentrations of prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) cup and ring carvings anywhere in Scot…
- Near Lochgilphead
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Antonine Wall: Rough Castle
Falkirk
Rough Castle is one of the best-preserved forts on the Antonine Wall, retaining the defensive landscape of Rome’s short-lived northern frontier and…
- Near Bonnybridge
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ballymeanoch Standing Stones and Henge
Argyll and Bute
One of the few places in Kilmartin Glen where a stone avenue, a circle and a henge: a circular enclosure from before any written account of Britain…
- Near Kilmartin
- 6 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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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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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Brandsbutt Stone
Aberdeenshire
Brandsbutt preserves the symbols of the Picts, people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900, beside an Ogham inscription still…
- Near Inverurie
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Broch of Gurness
Orkney Islands
The Broch of Gurness is a stone tower and settlement on the north-east coast of Mainland Orkney, overlooking Eynhallow Sound.
- Near Evie
- 141 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Mousa
Shetland Islands
The only broch - a drystone tower, round and hollow-walled, built in the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came - still standing nearly…
- Near Sandwick
- 3.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Pictish & early medieval
Brough of Birsay
Orkney Islands
A tidal island where Pictish metalworkers: people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900: Norse rulers and medieval pilgrims suc…
- Near Birsay
- 625 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burghead Fort
Moray
At roughly three times the size of any other early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) enclosed site in Scotland, th…
- Near Burghead
- 30 metres 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
- 4.4 km from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) Holy is the site of two Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chambered…
- Near Newton Stewart
- 207 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred 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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Calanais Standing Stones
Outer Hebrides
Erected around 2750 BC, before Stonehenge, and laid out so that none of its three stone rows actually points at the centre of its own circle.
- 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
A hillfort of the Maeatae with a thousand-year gap in its occupation: and a Jubilee beacon on the summit now filled with other people's wishes.
- 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
Clava’s planned arrangement of cairns and standing stones offers rare evidence of a single communal decision about burial and remembrance, rather t…
- Near Inverness
- 149 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · 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
A crawl into this first-farming-age tomb leads to four side cells and the extraordinary remains of people and twenty-four dogs, evidence of a commu…
- Near Finstown
- 270 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dryburgh Abbey
Scottish Borders
A monastery under an abbot on the banks of the Tweed, nominally founded in 1150 by agreement with Hugh de Morville.
- Near St Boswells
- 363 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumbarton Castle and Dumbarton Rock
West Dunbartonshire
The longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland: capital of Strathclyde, taken by Vikings in 871 after its water failed.
- Near Dumbarton
- 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
Dunfermline Abbey combines one of Scotland’s great round-arched churches, built before the Gothic style, with the country’s richest concentration o…
- Near St Andrews
- 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
A chamber tomb carved out of a single glacial erratic of Old Red Sandstone, in a steep valley on Hoy.
- Near Rackwick
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edin's Hall Broch
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: a defended settlement on high ground: was occupied by 1000 BC, in the Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, when meta…
- 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: either…
- Near Port Askaig
- 520 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Grey Cairns of Camster
Highland
Two Neolithic tombs raised on land so fertile that people farmed it: before the Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) bur…
- Near Lybster
- 120 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hill o' Many Stanes
Highland
Alexander Thom argued these modest stones once tracked the moon's 18.6-year cycle: a claim no other Caithness stone row has earned.
- 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
Reached only by a motor boat that runs from March to September, Inchmahome holds the roofless thirteenth-century buildings of a monastic house foun…
- 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 seventeenth century AD.
- 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
A single carved slab from around the 8th century, still standing almost undamaged in its churchyard: widely judged the finest surviving Celtic high…
- 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
Macmillan's Cross survives inside as one of the finest West Highland carvings anywhere: a clan chief and his hunting dogs cut into stone over six c…
- Near Kilmory, Knapdale
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Laggangairn Standing Stones
Dumfries and Galloway
Laggangairn’s stones link a setting from before written records reached Britain to early Christian crosses and a medieval Whithorn pilgrimage route…
- Near Newton Stewart
- 164 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Loanhead of Daviot Stone Circle
Aberdeenshire
One of only a handful of Aberdeenshire recumbent circles with every stone still standing, its granite ring encloses a cairn (a mound of piled stone…
- 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 burial mound was built around 2800 BC by farming communities of central Orkney and contains a stone chamber associated with the Grooved Ware po…
- Near Stenness
- 1.6 km 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 Scotland…
- Near Melrose
- 2 min walk from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A large burial mound with an internal stone chamber on the south shore of Rousay, named after the drystone tower beside it.
- 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, a mound of piled stones often covering a burial, and the earliest monument in the Ki…
- Near Kilmartin
- 7 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Picardy Symbol Stone
Aberdeenshire
A double-disc, a serpent and a mirror cut into whinstone around AD 600: three of the clearest Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eas…
- Near Insch
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A tomb mistaken for a broch until 1867, holding at least ten adults and possibly four children in a stone-lined cist: a box grave built of slabs: w…
- 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
The southernmost cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) in Kilmartin Glen's five-mile chain of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) b…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ring of Brodgar
Orkney Islands
The Ring of Brodgar is a stone circle on the narrow isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray on Mainland, Orkney.
- 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 K…
- Near Ruthwell
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Skara Brae
Orkney Islands
Ten roofless stone houses survive at Skara Brae with their built-in furniture still in place: hearths, dressers and box-beds. Occupied for roughly…
- 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 (a small border stronghold, built as a refuge against raiders) atop the crag of Lady Hill, around five miles west o…
- 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
St Ninian’s Cave is a Catholic pilgrimage site in Physgill Glen where early-medieval carved stones, rockfall-altered geology and modern film histor…
- Near Whithorn
- 25 min walk from car park
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge
Orkney Islands
An ancient monument five miles north-east of Stromness that may be the oldest circular enclosure in the British Isles.
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Tappoch Broch
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is a scheduled stone tower dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose surviving chamber, staircase and recent conserv…
- Near Torwood
- 20 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Temple Wood Stone Circles
Argyll and Bute
At the centre of the southern circle at Temple Wood lies a burial cist (a grave lined and capped with stone slabs), ringed by a smaller circle of s…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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