Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Evan
Highland
A double ring of vitrified (burnt so fiercely that the stone melted and set again) and rebuilt walls crowns a rock between two river valleys, with…
- Near Cawdor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Fiadhairt
Highland
A double-walled stone tower dating the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest stands on a loch-side knoll near Dunvegan, excavated in 189…
- Near Dunvegan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dùn Galláin
Argyll and Bute
The fort's own name, Fort of the Strangers, and a battle remembered on the beach just to its north, seem to point at the same event from two differ…
- Near Scalasaig
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Grugaig
Highland
A rare surviving 'semi-broch': the transitional D-shaped form that shows how the great circular broch towers of the Highlands may have evolved.
- Near Glenelg
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dun Guaidhre
Argyll and Bute
A small Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) stronghold on Islay whose very name is entangled with a Norse-Gaelic king w…
- Near Kilmeny
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Hallin
Highland
Its walls still rise close to four metres, with an intact mural gallery and lintel in place: one of Skye's better-preserved brochs, and one never d…
- Near Hallin
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Meadhonach
Argyll and Bute
Its Gaelic name, Middle Fort, hints at a lost network of strongholds along this stretch of Colonsay: of which this is now the only one still named.
- Near Lower Kilchattan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Mor Vaul
Argyll and Bute
A drystone tower with an internal diameter of 9.2 metres and walls roughly 4.5 metres thick stands on a rocky knoll on the northern coast of Tiree,…
- Near Balemartine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Morbhaidh
Argyll and Bute
Two potsherds incised with the figures of deer, lifted from Dùn Morbhaidh and now kept in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, are among…
- Near Gallanach
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dun Nosebridge
Argyll and Bute
Its name fuses Gaelic and Norse in one word: a fort whose very label records the island passing from Gaelic to Viking hands and back again.
- Near Bridgend
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Ringill
Highland
A stone roundhouse dating from the centuries before Rome arrived that Clan MacKinnon later refitted as its own stronghold, so the ruin carries two…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dun Skeig
Argyll and Bute
Two forts share one summit here: a compact Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) dun with a single entrance, and beside i…
- Near Clachan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Skudiburgh
Highland
A vitrified (burnt so fiercely that the stone melted and set again) Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort with a later dun built…
- Near Uig
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Telve
Highland
Its drystone wall still rises over ten metres without a scrap of mortar, making Dun Telve one of the tallest surviving brochs anywhere in Scotland.
- Near Inverness
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Troddan
Highland
Its stairway still climbs to a first-floor landing inside a wall four and a half metres thick: one of Scotland's most intact broch (a tall circular…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dun Ugadale
Argyll and Bute
Its Gaelic name preserves a memory of owls in the glen below, while a brooch once kept by its owners carries a tradition linking the fort to Robert…
- Near Ugadale
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Vulan
Outer Hebrides
On the southern edge of a promontory in South Uist stand the oval walls of Dun Vulan, known in Scottish Gaelic as Dùn Mhùlan or Dùn Mhaoilinn. The…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunamase
County Laois
For over four centuries the Rock passed through Viking raiders, Norman marcher lords and the O'More kings of Laois: each in turn rebuilding the reg…
- Near Portlaoise
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunaneeny Castle
County Antrim
Dunaneeny Castle joins MacDonnell clan power, a defensible Ballycastle headland, possible prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) occ…
- Near Cushendun
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dunasead Castle
County Cork
A modest 1620s tower house masks a much longer story: a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) ringfort, a Norman keep, and two…
- Near Baltimore
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunaverty Castle
Argyll and Bute
A single narrow path is the only way in: sea guards the other three sides: and in 1647 that natural trap became the site of one of Scotland's blood…
- Near Southend
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunbar Castle
East Lothian
A red-stone stronghold so formidable it was besieged, rebuilt and fought over for a thousand years, then torn down so thoroughly no one could ever…
- Near Dunbar
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunblane Cathedral
Stirling
A cathedral whose nave stood roofless for nearly three centuries: and which holds the finest medieval woodwork in Scotland after King's College, Ab…
- Near Dunblane
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunboy Castle
County Cork
A shattered tower house on Berehaven harbour where a two-week siege in 1602 broke the power of the O'Sullivan Bere clan and ended their control of…
- Near Castletownbere
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunbrody Abbey
County Wexford
One of the longest church buildings in medieval Ireland at 59 metres, its bell tower was built by threading new piers alongside the old transept (t…
- Near New Ross
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duncannon Fort
County Wexford
A star-shaped fort on a Waterford Harbour peninsula that hosted two fleeing and sheltering kings in the same year, and later gave its name to a reb…
- Near Duncannon
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dundanion Castle
County Cork
A Tudor tower house deliberately reshaped into an ornamental ruin by Victorian stonemasons, and tied by local tradition to William Penn’s departure…
- Near Kinsale
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dundas Aqueduct
Somerset
The first canal structure in Britain to be scheduled, in 1951 - and by 1954 it was leaking so badly it had to be closed.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dundon Hill Hillfort
Somerset
A hill that looks like a mountain because everything around it is flat: with a barrow, a burial mound of heaped earth, raised in the Bronze Age, ro…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dundonald Castle
South Ayrshire
A fourteenth-century royal residence on a hill between Kilmarnock and Troon.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dundrennan Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundrennan Abbey is a remarkably legible Cistercian ruin whose disciplined Romanesque (the round-arched style that came before Gothic) architecture…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dundurn, Scotland
Perth and Kinross
The Annals of Ulster record a siege here in 683 and the death of a king in 889 - a fort of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland f…
- Near St Fillans
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunearn
Highland
Two ramparts set barely six metres apart, likely braced by internal timbers, and traces of vitrification suggesting the fort was deliberately burne…
- Near Forres
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Roman
Dungeon Hill
Dorset
Dungeon Hill is a scheduled hillfort dating from roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, where a surviving rampart: a defensive bank of earth or s…
- Near Buckland Newton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dungiven Castle
County Londonderry
Dungiven Castle layers Plantation bawn walls, an Ogilby nineteenth-century rebuilding and a remarkable afterlife as homes, army base, ballroom and…
- Near Dungiven
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunguaire Castle
County Galway
A sixteenth-century tower still carrying the name of a legendary king of Connacht, now shut behind its own restored walls by a funding dispute with…
- Near Kinvara
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunkeld Cathedral
Perth and Kinross
A cathedral begun in 1260 and finished in 1501, standing on a Columban monastery whose reused red sandstone still shows as a streak across the east…
- Near Dunkeld
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunkerron Castle
County Kerry
A four-storey tower still stands roofless above Kenmare Bay, the seat from which one branch of the O'Sullivan Mór dynasty ruled before Cromwellian…
- Near Sneem
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Dunkery Hill
Somerset
The highest ground on Exmoor and in Somerset, rising to 519 metres above moorland and the Bristol Channel.
- Near Exford
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunlough Castle
County Cork
Three separate keeps, not one, linked by a wall running from sea cliff to a dammed lake: a defence built from the landscape itself, never recorded…
- Near Ballydehob
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunluce Castle
Antrim
Dunluce Castle is a dramatic cliff-edge medieval stronghold whose MacQuillan and MacDonnell history, Armada connection and adjacent planned town ma…
- Near Bushmills
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunmanus Castle
County Cork
A working dungeon, a rare adjoining five-storey tower, and an unbroken clan gathering founded to save it: Dunmanus punches well above its ruined wa…
- Near Durrus
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunmoe Castle
County Meath
A frontier keep on the western edge of The Pale, its ruined towers still standing over the Boyne where rival kings are said to have dined a day apa…
- Near Navan
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunmore Abbey
County Galway
A community said to trace back to a saint's 5th-century mission became an Augustinian friary (a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rathe…
- Near Tuam
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunmore Castle
County Galway
Dunmore Castle is a repeatedly rebuilt Galway stronghold whose compact hall-keep records Anglo-Norman defence, Gaelic attack, Tudor confiscation an…
- Near Clarinbridge
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dunnicaer
Aberdeenshire
Radiocarbon-dated rampart (the raised bank thrown up around a fortified enclosure) timbers make this eroding sea stack the earliest known Pictish (…
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dunnichen Stone
Angus
Its carved flower motif is rare among Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) symbol stones, w…
- Near Forfar
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunnideer Castle
Aberdeenshire
Its walls were quarried from a vitrified hillfort: an enclosure of the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome from about 800 BC, whose ramparts were b…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dunnideer stone circle
Aberdeenshire
One of more than seventy recumbent stone circles once raised across lowland Aberdeenshire, its three surviving stones stand at the foot of a hillto…
- Near Insch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunollie Castle
Argyll and Bute
The Irish annals name Dun Ollaigh three times over: attacked or burned in 686, 698 and 701: and then record it rebuilt in 714 by Selbach mac Fercha…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunoon Castle
Argyll and Bute
A royal stronghold fought over by kings, besieged with English ships and troops, and hosted Mary, Queen of Scots for three days in 1563.
- Near Dunoon
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunraven Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
A Georgian castellated hunting lodge over a medieval manor and older fortifications, demolished in 1962 with its walled garden and gatehouse left s…
- Near Southerndown
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunrobin Castle
Highland
A fourteenth-century keep with six-foot walls and stone-vaulted ceilings still survives at the core of the building Charles Barry expanded into the…
- Near Inverness
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunsandle Castle
County Galway
A 15th-century tower house whose great hall still carries tie beams and a groin vault rare in Irish castle building, kept alive by restoration rath…
- Near Athenry
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunsany Castle and Demesne
County Meath
Occupied by one family - the Cusacks, then the Plunketts by marriage - since building began around 1180, it ranks among the longest continuously he…
- Near Kilmessan
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dunscaith Castle
Highland
Its name comes not from a clan or a king but from Scáthach, the legendary warrior-woman said to have trained the Irish hero Cú Chulainn in the arts…
- Near Inverness
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunsinane Hill
Perth and Kinross
Nineteenth-century antiquarians came here because of Macbeth and dug the hill fort apart. Little of value was learned.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunstable Friary
Bedfordshire
A rare medieval jewel: a gold and enamel swan badge: came out of the ground here, one of the most celebrated small finds ever recovered from an Eng…
- Near Dunstable
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunstable Priory
Bedfordshire
In 1533 the Lady Chapel of this Augustinian priory hosted the ruling that ended Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a quiet Bedfordshire…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunstaffnage Castle
Argyll and Bute
One of the oldest stone castles in Scotland, Dunstaffnage was raised in the second quarter of the 13th century by the MacDougall lords of Lorn and…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunstanburgh Castle
Northumberland
Dunstanburgh Castle is Northumberland’s largest castle: a dramatic coastal stronghold built as Thomas of Lancaster’s political refuge and status st…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunster Castle
Somerset
Two families held the Tor for nine hundred years. The de Mohuns took it at the Conquest and the Luttrells kept it from the 1370s until 1976, so the…
- Near Dunster
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunster Priory
Somerset
Monks and parishioners shared one church and quarrelled over it, so a carved screen was built across the middle to divide the building in two.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duntrune Castle
Argyll and Bute
A 13th-century curtain wall and 17th-century tower house fused into one lived-in home: held by only three families in eight centuries, still owned…
- Near Crinan
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunure Castle
South Ayrshire
A ruin on a rocky headland of the Carrick coast, five miles south of Ayr, on a site of the late thirteenth century.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunwood Camp
Hampshire
Its single earthen rampart shows no trace of an accompanying ditch and never closes into a finished circuit: a Hampshire hillfort, an Iron Age: the…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunyvaig Castle
Argyll and Bute
A galley stronghold on Lagavulin Bay that anchored the Lord of the Isles' fleet and was fought over in five separate sieges within a single decade.
- Near Lagavulin
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dupath Well
Cornwall
Dupath Well is a nearly intact late-medieval holy well house where a granite chapel-like structure protects a spring once associated with healing.
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dupplin Cross
Perth and Kinross
A Pictish high cross carrying the name of a king who reigned around AD 800: the fixed point from which the rest of Pictish sculpture is dated.
- Near Dunning
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dureford Abbey
Hampshire
A monastery whose four centuries were marked less by prayerful calm than by lightning strikes, armed invasions and a patron who murdered his own ab…
- Near Rogate
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Durham Castle
County Durham
For over seven centuries this was not a garrison but a working seat of government: home to prince-bishops who could raise armies, levy taxes and st…
- Near Durham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Durham Priory
County Durham
One of the great Benedictine houses of northern England, Durham Priory guarded the shrine of Saint Cuthbert and grew wealthy enough to rival the Bi…
- Near Durham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Durhamstown Castle
County Meath
A County Meath towerhouse inhabited without a break since 1420, its owners running from an Elizabethan Lord Deputy to a modern guest house and rest…
- Near Navan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Durno
Aberdeenshire
The largest Roman marching camp yet found north of the Antonine Wall, revealed only by a chance aerial photograph after two millennia buried beneat…
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Durobrivae (Water Newton)
Cambridgeshire
For two centuries this garrison town by the Nene supplied fine tableware across Roman Britain, one of the few named pottery-producing towns to surv…
- Near Water Newton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Durocornovium
Wiltshire
A vanished Roman road-town whose four centuries of continuous rebuilding, recovered layer by layer in digs from 1967 to 1976, gave archaeologists a…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Duroliponte
Cambridgeshire
Its Roman perimeter survives not as ruins to visit but as a modern street plan: Mount Pleasant, Clare Street and Chesterton Lane trace the vanished…
- Near Cambridge
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Durrington Walls
Wiltshire
Radiocarbon dates place its great timber circle within decades of Stonehenge's first stone phase, making this the likely home of the people who act…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Durrow Abbey
County Offaly
A monastery that produced one of the earliest fully decorated Gospel books and recorded Europe's only known eyewitness sighting of the 1054 supernova.
- Near Tullamore
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Sacred place · Medieval
Duxford Chapel
Cambridgeshire
A lone medieval chapel that outlived the hospital it served, then spent two centuries as a barn before restoration saved it.
- Near Whittlesford
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Eamont Bridge (structure)
Cumbria
Built in 1425 on the promise of religious indulgences, this humpbacked sandstone bridge over the Eamont survived a near-fatal battering by Storm Fr…
- Near Penrith
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eardisley Castle
Herefordshire
A Domesday-era stronghold reduced to a mound and two water-filled ditches, yet its Civil War burning and a surviving gatehouse trace one family's f…
- Near Eardisley
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Earl's Palace, Birsay
Orkney Islands
Robert Stewart’s fortress-palace embodies the political ambition of James V’s illegitimate son, combining ceremonial halls with gun-holed defences…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Easby Abbey
North Yorkshire
Its finest woodwork was carried off to Richmond at the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s), yet six generations of o…
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Easby Cross
North Yorkshire
Carved from sandstone hauled some 60 miles from quarries near Whitby, the cross links a remote Yorkshire churchyard to the court art of Charlemagne…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Easebourne Priory
West Sussex
Founded before 1238 for a prioress and ten canonesses. Its claustral remains are now inside a Grade I listed house.
- Near Easebourne
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Eassie Stone
Angus
Carved on both faces with warriors, hunters, angels and a figure entangled with severed heads, it survived only because Georgian antiquarians pulle…
- Near Eassie
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
East and West Blockhouses
Pembrokeshire
The East Blockhouse is the standing remnant of Henry VIII's 1539 Milford Haven pair in Wales; Second World War trenches cut into the Tudor gun-towe…
- Near Angle
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Duncorn Hill
Somerset
A rounded flat-topped hill of 178 metres on the limestone plateau south of Bath, close to the Fosse Way.
- Near Bath
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dundrum Castle
County Down
Dundrum Castle is a layered Norman hill fortress whose keep, gatehouse and later Gaelic adaptations command Dundrum Bay and the approaches to Lecale.
- Near Dundrum
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dungannon Castle
County Tyrone
Dungannon is worth seeking out for the way one hilltop concentrates Gaelic lordship, Plantation rebuilding, civil conflict and archaeology beneath…
- Near Dungannon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunham Castle
Greater Manchester
Dunham Castle is a documentary medieval castle whose surviving mound and former moat remain archaeologically uncertain, illustrating how later land…
- Near Dunham Massey
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunseverick Castle
Antrim
Dunseverick Castle preserves an ancient coastal promontory with Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC), early Christian, V…
- Near Bushmills
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Durnovaria
Dorset
Durnovaria, Roman Dorchester, preserves the transition from a Roman military presence to a Durotrigan civic centre whose streets, defences, mosaics…
- Near Dorchester
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Building or ruin · Roman
Durolevum
Kent
Durolevum was a Roman Watling Street settlement between Richborough and London, important precisely because archaeology has narrowed: but not settl…
- Near Newington
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Duropolis
Dorset
Duropolis is a large Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) settlement near Winterborne Kingston whose dense roundhouse pl…
- Near Winterborne Kingston
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Durovernum Cantiacorum
Kent
Durovernum Cantiacorum was Roman Canterbury: a strategically sited civitas capital that developed from a fortified Iron-Age settlement into a walle…
- Near Canterbury
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dyce Symbol Stones
Aberdeen City
A rare survival: an incised pagan-era stone and a Christian cross-slab stand side by side under one roof, one still carrying an ogham inscription n…
- Near Dyce
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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