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Building or ruin · Medieval
West Lothian
The Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem were invited to Scotland in 1132 by David I, and the preceptory: their Scottish headqu…
Settlement · Prehistoric
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
Building or ruin · Medieval
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…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Twenty to thirty bowls were put in here, most of them already broken and already used: one sherd carried the impression of a barley grain.
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Angus
The neighbouring Brown Caterthun was repeatedly altered during the latter half of the first millennium BC; White Caterthun preserves the contrastin…
Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Dumfries and Galloway
Whithorn was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland: Candida Casa, the 'White/Shining House': built by Saint Ninian around…
Minor monument · Medieval
Clackmannanshire
Clackmannan’s early market cross stands beside a town court building and the Clackmannan Stone, a rare civic group tied to the town’s origins.
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
This surviving seventeenth-century pigeon house preserves Balbegno Castle’s food infrastructure, from its crowstepped roof to a projecting masonry…
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Findlater’s beehive pigeon house retains about 700 nesting boxes, making an otherwise modest estate building an unusually legible record of how the…
Minor monument · Medieval
Fife
Creich’s 1723 pigeon house is an unusually formal castle lean-to, where twin chambers, rat-proofing and dormer entries make estate food production…
Minor monument · Medieval
Dumfries and Galloway
Denbie’s dated 1775 pigeon house turns estate food supply into architectural display, combining an octagonal lantern, J C datestone and nesting box…
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
The sixteenth-century beehive pigeon house outlasts Fetteresso Castle’s dismantling, its three rat lines preserving the working estate landscape be…
Minor monument · Medieval
Highland
Kilravock’s pigeon house, built to keep birds for winter meat, makes the estate’s long-running economy tangible within a building altered from medi…
Minor monument · Medieval
Scottish Borders
Three hundred and eighty-two nesting boxes in sixteen circular rows, inside a dovecot: a purpose-built pigeon house: that once served the home of D…
Minor monument · Medieval
Angus
Edzell’s square pigeon house, with diagonally opposed turrets and a later ruined extension, makes the working architecture and changing needs of th…
Minor monument · Medieval
Fife
Wormiston’s early-seventeenth-century pigeon house preserves a more ambitious estate structure than most Fife doocots, with twin chambers, a vaulte…
Minor monument · Medieval
Fife
Balcaskie’s paired dovecots turn an estate entrance into architecture, combining 1714–45 gate piers, bird houses and later Lorimer ironwork in one…
Minor monument · Medieval
Dumfries and Galloway
A plain sandstone cross marks the lost village of Preston, whose population fell from a settled community to one inhabitant by 1844.
Minor monument · Medieval
Fife
Inverkeithing’s market cross, the stone cross marking a burgh’s right to hold a market, carries centuries of civic self-image: royal heraldry and a…
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
Macduff’s 1783 cross reassembled older fragments into a royal-burgh statement, its rider and inscriptions preserving the Earl of Fife’s civic ambit…
Minor monument · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
Removed to the grounds of Castle Huntly at the end of the eighteenth century, and not put back on Main Street until 1989.
Minor monument · Medieval
Scottish Borders
Melrose’s 1645 market cross combines a restored seventeenth-century shaft with a nineteenth-century base and a weathered unicorn finial carrying th…
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A granite market cross on five circular steps preserves Old Rayne’s status as a burgh of barony created in 1492.
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A 1736 granite market cross in Fraserburgh retains its date, oval shaft and coat of arms in the centre of Saltoun Square.
Minor monument · Medieval
Fife
Culross’s market cross visibly joins a 1588 trading privilege to Edwardian civic revival, its original stepped base supporting a 1902 shaft, arms a…
Minor monument · Medieval
Stirling
The capital carries the arms of Moray and Campbell, two sundials and a lion: a good deal of information packed onto the top of one shaft.
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeenshire
A 1670 market cross moved from Kincardine to Fettercairn in 1730 carries an ell measure, sundials and the arms of Scotland and the Earl of Middleton.
Minor monument · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
A stump of medieval shaft, two feet three inches high, with a font from before the Reformation set on top of it: two separate objects made into one…
Minor monument · Medieval
Moray
An incised hammer mark and a hole probably cut for the jougs: the iron collar in which offenders were chained: survive on a cross now standing in a…
Minor monument · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
A cross assembled out of loose window tracery, standing beside a font carried here from Kinnaird: both given nineteenth-century dates that the ston…
Minor monument · Medieval
Scottish Borders
Said to have been put up on the Market Green in 1609. It is now set against the west side of the church, off the green entirely.
Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Monmouthshire
33 Whitecross Street is an eighteenth-century listed house whose 2009 extension archaeology revealed activity from the Stone Age through Roman, med…
Crossing or structure · Roman
Cheshire
This Grade I listed Chester building (protected for its special architectural or historic interest) combines a surviving Roman underfloor-heating s…
Sacred place · Medieval
Greater London
Richard Norman Shaw built this house for himself, without a client to please, and used it to demonstrate the Queen Anne style he helped popularise…
Sacred place · Medieval
Greater London
A community garden in Stratford grows vegetables and flowers directly above the buried gatehouse of a vanished medieval abbey (a self-governing mon…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Meath
For centuries this monastery sheltered, and perhaps helped create, the Book of Kells -- one of the finest illuminated gospel books to survive from…
Sacred place · Medieval
Pembrokeshire
The west wall and north cross-arm of a twelfth-century monastic house beside the Teifi, with a detached medieval infirmary nearby.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Dublin
Once one of Ireland's wealthiest religious houses, its canons taxed every barrel of Dublin ale and ran the city's water supply: yet nothing of it s…
Sacred place · Medieval
city-of-london
The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare gave the Minories its name; after the Crown closed it in 1539, its chapel became Holy Trinity church and ot…
Building or ruin · Medieval
North Yorkshire
Limestone walls near the river preserve Selby Abbey's old working edge. Abbot's Staith is a medieval staith, meaning a riverside landing or warehou…
Sacred place · Medieval
Dorset
Stone fragments, a great barn and St Catherine's Chapel keep Abbotsbury Abbey visible in the Dorset village it once dominated. Abbotsbury Abbey was…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Dorset
Earth banks look out from Wears Hill toward the English Channel, above the village and coast at Abbotsbury. Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age (rough…
Sacred place · Medieval
Devon
A community of nuns fled revolutionary France, was exiled twice more, and only found permanent refuge here in a convent built with its own escape t…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Fife
The Abdie Stone is a rare Class I Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) monument in Fife who…
Fortified place · Medieval
Ceredigion
In 1216 this mound hosted the assembly at which Llywelyn the Great secured the submission of south Wales's rulers, a diplomatic turning point rathe…
Fortified place · Medieval
Powys
The last place Llywelyn ap Gruffydd sheltered before his death in 1282: most of it later quarried away to make foundations for a railway.
Crossing or structure · Medieval
Monmouthshire
Known as Tudor Bridge for the tradition that Jasper Tudor built it, the crossing also caught the eye of J. M. W. Turner, who painted it twice in th…
Fortified place · Medieval
Monmouthshire
Abergavenny Castle is a major Marcher ruin, shaped by the 1175 killing of Welsh leaders, Glyndŵr’s revolt and a long afterlife as civic gardens and…
Fortified place · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
One of only two Irish-style round towers in Scotland, the other at Brechin Cathedral.
Fortified place · Medieval
Neath Port Talbot
Aberpergwm House is a ruined Welsh country house tied to a long-lived Welsh-speaking gentry family, nineteenth-century historicist remodelling, war…
Fortified place · Medieval
Powys
A Norman motte, the earthen mound a castle was raised on, without its bailey, the walled yard below the castle mound,, in the borderland counties t…
Fortified place · Medieval
Ceredigion
A diamond-shaped Edwardian fortress that changed hands between Welsh princes and the English crown, then struck its own silver coinage for Charles…
Sacred place · Medieval
Oxfordshire
Timber-framed abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) buildings and gateways still thread through Abingdon where the great church has vanished. Abin…
Fortified place · Medieval
Surrey
Excavation here recovered the actual postholes of the vanished timber tower and the bridge linking it to its bailey (the enclosed courtyard where t…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Argyll and Bute
A single 1691 meeting in these ruins produced a treaty of bribes that were never paid and secret terms the negotiator later denied, brokered on the…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Argyll and Bute
A single 1304 land grant is the earliest written trace of a stronghold long credited to the Bishop of Argyll, though excavation has since pointed t…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Herefordshire
Earthworks on Aconbury Hill still mark a long enclosure above the country south of Hereford. Aconbury Camp is a defended hilltop enclosure with lat…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shropshire
Red sandstone walls still rise beside Acton Burnell's church and the great barn linked with Edward I's parliament. Acton Burnell Castle is a fortif…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
A long grassy mound rises on the chalk near Alton Barnes, with sarsen stones remembered as Old Adam and Little Eve near its former entrance. Adam's…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kent
Sarsen stones cluster beside a narrow road near Addington, the battered remains of a Neolithic tomb: from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500…
Building or ruin · Roman
Northumberland
Aesica is a compact Hadrian’s Wall fort whose water system, defences, garrisons, and excavated buildings reveal Roman frontier engineering in unusu…
Fortified place · Medieval
Devon
A medieval gatehouse is all that survived when Civil War forces levelled the Stucley family's fortified manor - and it went on to become their fami…
Fortified place · Medieval
Angus
Its interior has scarcely been touched since the 1700s: spy-hole, private chapel and mural bedrooms all still in place, making it one of the most c…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Laois
One of its own monks became a canonised bishop who built Salzburg Cathedral: a direct medieval thread from a small Irish valley to the heart of the…
Fortified place · Medieval
County Mayo
A gallowglass stronghold that changed hands twice within months in 1596, its fate decided not by siege but by the rumour of Hugh Roe O'Donnell's ap…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
Its 21.5-tonne recumbent stone ranks among the heaviest in Aberdeenshire, yet a 2001 dig returned a puzzling late radiocarbon date that unsettles t…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Argyll and Bute
For a century after the Lordship of the Isles fell, this headland castle changed hands between an Ayrshire family and the MacDonalds of Dunnyveg: K…
Building or ruin · Roman
North Yorkshire
A high-status Roman house on the road to Catterick that no one knew existed until a bypass survey found it in 2013: and most of it still lies unexc…
Building or ruin · Roman
Cumbria
The site has yielded more Roman altars than any other in Britain, stone records of religious life left by soldiers stationed at the empire's north-…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shropshire
Red sandstone fragments and earthworks sit close to the Welsh border, where the Severn routes once mattered intensely. Alberbury Castle was a medie…
Sacred place · Medieval
Shropshire
A house of seven monks that lost two priors to murder allegations within five years, and was dissolved a century before the Dissolution, the closur…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shropshire
A medieval moat that had silted up and been filled with rubble, refilled in 1992 by a BBC television programme and now an angling centre for disabl…
Sacred place · Medieval
Warwickshire
A Benedictine house of 1138 with estates as far off as Dorset, annexed by Evesham Abbey in 1467 and left with almost nothing to mark it.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Scottish Borders
A dated panel above the door reads 1745, or possibly 1743: inserted, it seems, to mark the completion of repairs to the 653 nesting boxes inside.
Minor monument · Medieval
Argyll and Bute
The Carloonan dovecot: a stone house for pigeons, kept for winter meat: survives within the designed estate landscape of Inveraray Castle.
Minor monument · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
The weathervane on top is a model of the East Indiaman General Elliot, which Captain Robert Drummond commanded from her launch in 1783: at the age…
Minor monument · Medieval
Aberdeen City
Aberdeen’s 1686 market cross combines royal and civic carving with a gilt unicorn, preserving the burgh’s public trading and ceremonial centre thro…
Minor monument · Medieval
Highland
Cromarty’s market cross, the stone cross marking a burgh’s right to hold a market, preserves a rare civic document in stone: its 1578 shaft and Geo…
Minor monument · Medieval
Dumfries and Galloway
Thornhill’s 1714 Pegasus-topped cross was planned with the village road, making its column a surviving civic centre despite relocation and later re…
Minor monument · Medieval
Falkirk
Airth Mercat Cross is a 1697 market marker in the High Street, protected through Category A listing after its former scheduled-monument designation…
Minor monument · Medieval
South Ayrshire
The cross carries its own admission that it is not original: the inscription reads 'Rebuilt 1777'.
Minor monument · Medieval
East Ayrshire
Cumnock’s 1703 market cross combines burgh ceremony, a working sundial and Crighton heraldry, with repairs showing its civic role endured for three…
Minor monument · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
Two lions and two unicorns share the top of this cross, holding up a ball finial between them.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Limerick
In 1205 Theobald Walter, chief butler of Ireland and brother of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, granted the entire "feodum" of Woodenikuwi…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Kerry
The Cistercians who settled at Abbeydorney gave their house a Greek name, Kyrie Eleison, or Lord Have Mercy. The choice followed the order's habit…
Fortified place · Roman
West Yorkshire
Becca Banks runs straight across a Roman road, and nobody knows which came first: whether the bank was raised against Rome, or the road driven thro…
Building or ruin · Roman
Dorset
The embankment reaches nearly fifty feet across and stands some six feet above the surrounding chalk, wider than engineering ever demanded of a roa…
Sacred place · Medieval
Herefordshire
A standing church at Aconbury preserves the clearest trace of a vanished priory: a medieval religious house governed by a prior or prioress: founde…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Limerick
Robert Thompson's thumbnail-sized carved mouse sits on the lectern base inside St Nicholas' Church of Ireland parish church in Adare. The small mod…
Settlement · Medieval
County Fermanagh
Aghaherrish combines a documented Plantation-era naming record with Boho’s water landscape and a scheduled rath with a counterscarp: the outer slop…
Settlement · Medieval
County Fermanagh
Aghahoorin preserves Boho’s layered place-name history alongside a scheduled bivallate rath (an early-medieval Irish farmstead ringed by an earth b…
Settlement · Medieval
County Antrim
Aghalislone contains both a protected rath, a farmstead enclosed by a circular bank and ditch, and barrow, a burial mound, with nearby finds reveal…
Crossing or structure · Medieval
County Tyrone
Aghalunny is a Tyrone townland whose protected Fairy Bridge and several Irish name traditions preserve both built and linguistic history.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Fermanagh
Aghalurcher preserves a pre-Norman monastic tradition, a fifteenth-century Maguire remodelling and a dispersed sculptural record, making it a key b…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Fermanagh
Aghanaglack concentrates thousands of years of archaeology in one Boho townland: a late Stone Age burial monument, medieval cross, underground cave…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Londonderry
Agivey Abbey preserves the record of an early monastic site that became a medieval grange before its lands passed to London’s Ironmongers in 1604.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Dublin
Its enormous, probably locally quarried capstone makes Aideen’s Grave a rare tangible test of construction in the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500…
Building or ruin · Roman
Oxfordshire
Akeman Street runs for roughly 117 kilometres across southern England, a Roman road tracking east to west between the modern counties of Hertfordsh…
Building or ruin · Roman
Carmarthenshire
A rectangular earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) enclosure of roughly 170 by 120 metres, guard…
Building or ruin · Roman
Cumbria
The name Alavana has been attached, tentatively and probably in error, to the buried remains of a Roman fort at Watercrook, roughly two miles (3.2…
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