Fortified place · Medieval
Kilmahew Castle
Argyll and Bute
A roofless tower house north of Cardross that gave its name to eighteen generations of Napiers, among them the shipbuilding dynasty that built the…
- Near Cardross
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilmalkedar
County Kerry
A hole pierces the east wall of the chancel (the part of a church around the altar) at Kilmalkedar, low and narrow. Local tradition gives it a name…
- Near Dingle
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilmory Castle, Bute
Argyll and Bute
Its nickname, Crowner's Castle, preserves the memory of a hereditary legal office: coroner of Bute: held by one family for generations.
- Near Meikle Kilmory
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilree
County Kilkenny
Kilree preserves an early Christian enclosure, a distinctive round-tower foundation and a richly carved high cross, while local tradition and the a…
- Near Callan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kiltartan Castle
County Galway
Kiltartan Castle preserves a late-thirteenth-century riverside tower house, its partial medieval fabric shaped by ruin during the Cromwellian conqu…
- Near Gort
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilton Castle
North Yorkshire
Rebuilt in stone around 1190 without a keep, Kilton may be the first castle in northern England built that way: a design choice, not a deficiency,…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilve Chantry
Somerset
A chantry founded to pray for one man's soul, which became a barn, then a smugglers' store, and burned down in 1848 to hide the brandy.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilwinning Abbey
North Ayrshire
Kilwinning’s ruined monastery once held revenues from fourteen parishes, granges and baronial jurisdiction, leaving an unusually wide medieval impr…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kimbolton Castle
Cambridgeshire
A Norman stronghold turned ducal palace, remodelled by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, whose fenland damp is said to have hastened the death of a discarded…
- Near Kimbolton
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kimsbury hill fort
Gloucestershire
Its Old English name preserves the memory of a person, Cynemær, otherwise lost to record: a fortress whose ramparts still outline the hilltop despi…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kinalehin Friary
County Galway
Ireland's only Carthusian monastery once stood here, a solitary order that left almost no other trace on the island before Franciscans remade the s…
- Near Gort
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kindlestown Castle
County Wicklow
A late hall house whose ownership swung between Anglo-Norman knights, Gaelic raiders and an earl across three centuries, its ruined shell still tra…
- Near Wicklow
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
King Arthur's Hall
Cornwall
King Arthur's Hall is a Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) rectangular stone enclosure on Bodmin Moor whose unusual water-fill…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
King Arthur's Round Table
Cumbria
Despite its legendary name, this is a genuine Neolithic, the late Stone Age, henge, a bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, one half of a pair…
- Near Penrith
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
King Charles's Castle
Cornwall
King Charles's Castle is a Tudor artillery fort on Tresco whose flawed high position exposed the limits of sixteenth-century coastal defence, befor…
- Near New Grimsby
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
King John's Castle (Carlingford)
County Louth
A D-shaped stronghold whose east and west wings were raised two generations apart, yet still reads as a single act of control over Carlingford's ha…
- Near Carlingford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
King John's Castle (Limerick)
County Limerick
Beneath the Norman stonework lie the remains of a Viking stronghold founded in 922 and unearthed in 1900: a thousand years of contest for the Shann…
- Near Limerick
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King John's Hill
Hampshire
A small Iron Age hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement from the centuries before Rome arrived, quarried on one side yet still carrying two crisp…
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Medieval
King John's Palace
Nottinghamshire
King John’s Palace gives Clipstone’s sheep-grazed ruins an outsized story of royal hunting, Parliament, and the last illness of Eleanor of Castile.
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Fortified place · Medieval
King John's Palace, Southampton
Hampshire
A merchant's wine store became a fortress by royal order, and its blocked archways may hold Britain's earliest surviving gunports.
- Near Southampton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift
Leicestershire
King Lud’s Entrenchments is an unexcavated scheduled earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry) within a cr…
- Near Croxton Kerrial
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
King Richard III Visitor Centre
Leicestershire
A Victorian schoolhouse built directly over a king's grave: the exact spot where DNA finally solved a five-century mystery in 2012.
- Near Leicester
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Building or ruin · Roman
King Street (Roman road)
Lincolnshire
A working Roman road whose original engineering choices: kerbed gravel trenches, sand carriageway, deliberate north-south hauling of stone: can sti…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Medieval
King Street, Bristol
Bristol
Laid out on reclaimed marshland in 1650, the street still carries one of Bristol's densest runs of 17th-century merchant houses, several built usin…
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
King's Castle, Ardglass
Down
King’s Castle is Ardglass’s largest medieval stronghold, its nineteenth-century reconstruction still serving a daily purpose as a nursing home afte…
- Near Ardglass
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King's Castle, Wells
Somerset
Possibly the settlement that Wells grew out of: an enclosed hilltop site of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, of two or three…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King's Castle, Wiveliscombe
Somerset
Arrowheads from the Neolithic, the first farming age, roughly 4000-2500 BC, and a hoard of 1,139 coins have come off this hilltop.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
King's Langley Priory
Hertfordshire
A Dominican friary (a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather than withdrawing from them) founded on a king's battlefield vow and twin…
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Sacred place · Medieval
King's Mead Priory
Derbyshire
The only Benedictine nunnery in medieval Derbyshire, its prioresses fought off a rival abbot's control and a bailiff's threats to defend their inde…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
King's Quoit
Pembrokeshire
A late Stone Age burial chamber on high ground above Manorbier Bay, five miles east of Pembroke.
- Near Manorbier
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
King's Standing Bowl Barrow
West Midlands
A prehistoric: from before written records reached Britain: burial mound beside a Roman road that later lent its name to a Civil War tradition and…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kingerby Castle
Lincolnshire
A motte (a steep artificial mound built to carry a timber tower) and bailey (the walled yard below the castle mound) castle burnt on King John's or…
- Near Kingerby
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kings Langley Palace
Hertfordshire
A vanished royal residence of the Plantagenet kings survives only underground, its walls entirely gone but its footprint still protected in law.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kings Weston Hill
Bristol
At its eastern tip survives a scheduled Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort (an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and d…
- Near Lawrence Weston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kingsdown Camp
Somerset
A drystone wall possibly four metres high and two and a half thick, around an enclosure of only a third of an acre.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kingsgate Castle
Kent
Built as a stable block in the 1760s, Kingsgate Castle’s rapid ruin and conversion into 32 flats expose the fragility of fashionable Gothic display.
- Near Broadstairs
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kingsgate, Winchester
Hampshire
One of only two medieval gates left standing in Winchester, it carries a working parish church built into its own fabric: a gateway and a place of…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kingsley Castle
Cheshire
Kingsley Castle is a compact scheduled medieval motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) whose artificial black-soil mound sur…
- Near Kingsley
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kingston Russell Stone Circle
Dorset
Kingston Russell is Dorset’s largest surviving stone circle, an unexcavated Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) monument whose fallen…
- Near Abbotsbury
- 1.6 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kingswear Castle
Devon
Kingswear Castle is one of Britain’s earliest purpose-built artillery forts, guarding Dartmouth harbour across the Dart and later adapted from mili…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kingswood Abbey
Gloucestershire
Its abbey church vanished so completely that no one knows exactly where it stood: only a lavishly carved gatehouse survived the Dissolution (Henry…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kington Castle
Herefordshire
A border stronghold fought over by three of Herefordshire's most powerful families before King John razed it in a single act of vengeance in 1215.
- Near Hereford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kington St. Michael Priory
Wiltshire
Its last Prioress, Dame Marie Denys, stepped into the role at the very moment Thomas Cromwell's commissioners began dismantling England's monasteri…
- Near Kington St Michael
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kinlough Castle
County Mayo
A Burke tower house whose slit loops and drawbar-slotted door still speak to the priorities of its builders, deepened rather than replaced by a 157…
- Near Ballina
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kinnersley Castle
Herefordshire
An Elizabethan skin conceals a Marcher castle begun under Henry I, and inside survives a solar ceiling of gilded green men and serpent hounds among…
- Near Kinnersley
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kinnitty Castle
County Offaly
A working hotel built on ground rebuilt or replaced at least four times since 1213, its present owners include a founding member of the Wolfe Tones.
- Near Kinnitty
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kintbury Abbey
Berkshire
Two attempts to establish a religious house here, two centuries apart, left only paperwork behind: no abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) walls…
- Near Kintbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kinver Edge Hillfort
Staffordshire
A fort with a massive rampart on two sides and nothing built on the other two: because the escarpment already did the job.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kinwarton Dovecote
Warwickshire
A potence: a pivoted ladder that swings round the interior: still lets a keeper reach every nesting box. The building still houses doves.
- Near Kinwarton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kirby Bellars Priory
Leicestershire
Kirby Bellars Priory preserves the transformation of Roger de Beler’s chantry college into an Augustinian house with wide parish responsibilities,…
- Near Kirby Bellars
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kirby Hall
Northamptonshire
A house begun to a French pattern book in 1570 that became one of England's earliest Elizabethan prodigy houses, then was slowly stripped and aband…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kirby Knowle Castle
North Yorkshire
Behind its Elizabethan stonework lies a real fugitive story: in 1597 a government searcher combed the house's vaults and secret passages and captur…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kirby Muxloe Castle
Leicestershire
Kirby Muxloe is a rare, well-documented unfinished late-medieval castle whose decorative brick gatehouse and water-filled moat reveal elite ambitio…
- Near Kirby Muxloe
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kirkham Priory
North Yorkshire
A rare, near-complete English Gothic gatehouse survives here, and the ruins later trained the armoured divisions that stormed the D-Day beaches.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kirkmadrine Church and Burial-ground
Dumfries and Galloway
Kirkmadrine preserves three sixth-century Latin memorials naming early Christian priests, then traces continued devotion through later slabs and a…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kirkoswald Castle
Cumbria
A licensed medieval stronghold whose finest fittings were stripped out and carried off wholesale to another castle, leaving only the moat and a lon…
- Near Kirkoswald
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kirkstall Abbey
West Yorkshire
A ruined Cistercian house founded about 1152, now standing in a public park on the north bank of the Aire.
- Near Leeds
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kirkstead Abbey
Lincolnshire
Kirkstead Abbey preserves the fragment and earthworks of a major Cistercian foundation from Fountains Abbey, whose 1537 suppression followed the Li…
- Near Woodhall Spa
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Its broken recumbent stone is the longest known of its kind in Scotland: the sole survivor of what were once three stone circles in this parish.
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Kirriemuir sculptured stones
Angus
The stones' Pictish symbols were carved as the symbol tradition itself was dying out: among the last such carvings made anywhere before it vanished…
- Near Kirriemuir
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kirtling Tower
Cambridgeshire
A brick Tudor gatehouse is all that survives of a house that was once the largest in Cambridgeshire and a likely wellspring for both Spenser's poet…
- Near Kirtling
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kisimul Castle
Outer Hebrides
In 2001 the chief of Clan MacNeil leased Kisimul Castle to Historic Scotland for 1000 years, for an annual rent of £1 and a bottle of whisky. The a…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kit's Coty House
Kent
Kit’s Coty House preserves an Early Neolithic sarsen chamber near Aylesford, making a conspicuous fragment of Medway’s prehistoric: the time before…
- Near Aylesford
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Knap Hill
Wiltshire
This was the first causewayed enclosure ever recognised and excavated, the discovery that let archaeologists define a whole class of Neolithic (the…
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Knap of Howar
Orkney Islands
A farmstead of the first farming age on Papa Westray that may be the oldest standing house in northern Europe.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Knaresborough Castle
North Yorkshire
A queen gave birth within its walls assisted by a relic said to be the Virgin's girdle, and a royal mistress later inherited the ruins outright.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Knaresborough Priory
North Yorkshire
England's only Trinitarian priory: a monastery headed by a prior: in Yorkshire grew up around a fugitive hermit's riverside cave, even though its f…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Knepp Castle
West Sussex
A motte castle: the earthen mound a castle was raised on: probably founded by William de Braose, still hosting reigning monarchs in the fourteenth…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Knights Templar Church, Dover
Kent
This rare round-plan church makes the uncertainty worth seeing: its architecture keeps the Templar legend alive while records point instead toward…
- Near Dover
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Knock of Alves
Moray
Six weathered boulders share a wooded hill with a much larger, older stronghold, one refortified deep into the Pictish (of the Picts, the people of…
- Near Elgin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knockeen Portal Tomb
County Waterford
The largest dolmen in County Waterford, its keyhole entrance and possible solstice alignment with Sugarloaf hill hint at ritual as much as burial.
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Knockin Castle
Shropshire
Knockin Castle preserves the earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) memory of a level-ground forti…
- Near Knockin
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knockmany Passage Tomb
County Tyrone
Three of its thirteen buried sandstone slabs carry rare megalithic art: concentric circles, spirals and zigzags: placing this hilltop grave in the…
- Near Omagh
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Knockmoy Abbey
County Galway
Its chancel once held one of only four surviving medieval tempera wall-paintings in Ireland: a rarity conservators have worked to protect since the…
- Near Tuam
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Knoll Camp
Hampshire
A single quiet ditch here is shadowed only fifty metres away by a separate cross-ridge dyke, with the ancient boundary of Grim's Ditch running thro…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Knook Castle
Wiltshire
Interpreters still disagree on whether this was an Iron Age hillfort, a Roman summer camp, or a cattle enclosure: and the surrounding downs hide tw…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Knowe of Swandro
Orkney Islands
Knowe of Swandro is a coastal archaeological site on Rousay, where a burial tomb, settlement remains and Viking-age buildings are being eroded by t…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
Knowe of Yarso preserves a burial mound built around a stone chamber, bringing together material remains and documented history that illuminate Ork…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knowes of Trotty
Orkney Islands
An unusually rich Bronze Age cemetery where imported gold and amber were buried with cremated people, evidence that Orkney elites reached far beyon…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilmartin Glen
Argyll and Bute
Within a six-mile radius of the village of Kilmartin, in Argyll north of Knapdale, stand more than 800 ancient monuments, of which some 150 date fr…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Kilmodan Carved Stones
Argyll and Bute
A rare assembly of medieval West Highland grave slabs kept together under one roof, in the direct care of Historic Environment Scotland, rather tha…
- Near Clachan of Glendaruel
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kilmogue Portal Tomb
County Kilkenny
Kilmogue Portal Tomb is a National Monument whose granite-and-quartz structure, solstice-facing entrance and layered Irish name make a compact Neol…
- Near Mullinavat
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kilpatrick Dun
North Ayrshire
Kilpatrick Dun is a substantial later Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) fortified residence on Arran, with an eight-m…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilpeck Priory
Herefordshire
Its monks were refugees from a Welsh raid on Llanthony Priory, and the earthworks of their short-lived home now lie behind a working farmhouse, tra…
- Near Kilpeck
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kiltiernan Tomb
County Dublin
A chamber sealed by a small door stone wedged between two entrance pillars, roofed by a single capstone estimated at around forty tonnes.
- Near Kiltiernan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kiltinan Castle
County Tipperary
Kiltinan Castle is one of Ireland’s oldest inhabited castles, a thirteenth-century Butler stronghold later remodelled and repurposed as a prominent…
- Near Clonmel
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kinbane Castle
Antrim
Kinbane Castle is a largely ruined sixteenth-century MacDonnell coastal castle whose narrow limestone headland, English siege damage and long MacAl…
- Near Ballycastle
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Medieval
King Doniert's Stone
Cornwall
King Doniert's Stone is a rare inscribed Cornish cross fragment whose ninth-century text may commemorate the documented King Dungarth, linking loca…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Kings Weston Roman Villa
Bristol
Bristol's only visible Roman bath suite survived here, along with mosaic floors and a hypocaust (underfloor heating system), buried beneath a 20th-…
- Near Lawrence Weston
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kinniside Stone Circle
Cumbria
A prehistoric circle pulled down for farm gate-posts and pieced back together in 1925: its eleven stones now held not by original earth but by conc…
- Near Egremont
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kinsham Grange
Herefordshire
A supposed priory beside the River Lugg that most likely never existed: a rare case where the record itself, not the ruin, is the story.
- Near Leominster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Kirkdale sundial
North Yorkshire
The Kirkdale Sundial is an unusually precise mid-eleventh-century Old English monument: it dates St Gregory’s rebuilding to Edward and Tostig’s tim…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kirkistown Castle
County Down
Kirkistown preserves a 1622 Plantation-era tower house and bawn, where rebuilding after about 1500 stands above a landscape associated with a lost…
- Near Kirkistown
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Kit Hill
Cornwall
Kit Hill is East Cornwall's dominant country-park summit, where prehistoric barrows, a Civil War redoubt and extensive mining remains trace the cha…
- Near Callington
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Knag Burn Gateway
Northumberland
Knag Burn Gateway is an unusual later opening in Hadrian’s Wall, whose paired guard chambers and double gates show tightly controlled movement beyo…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Knappogue Castle
County Clare
Knappogue Castle is a restored late medieval tower house whose MacNamara, Cromwellian, aristocratic and modern tourism phases preserve a remarkably…
- Near Quin
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knock Iveagh
County Down
Knock Iveagh is a County Down hill whose summit cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial), inauguration tradition, and surrounding s…
- Near Newry
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Sacred place · Medieval
Knocklayd
Antrim
Knocklayd is a prominent Antrim Hills summit whose quartz passage tomb, surrounding standing stones and extraordinary townland boundary make it bot…
- Near Ballycastle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Knockmore
County Fermanagh
Knockmore brings together Fermanagh scarpland geology, protected upland habitat and fifteen summit caves, including Lettered Cave’s inscriptions fr…
- Near Enniskillen
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knocknakilla
County Cork
A recumbent stone circle and radial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) paired with a leaning 3.7-metre portal stone, aligned…
- Near Millstreet
- Rough ground
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