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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Pictish & early medieval Britain & Ireland
The carved stones, crosses and kingdoms of the early historic centuries.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 · 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Unstan Chambered Cairn
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.
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Whithorn Priory and Museum
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…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Abdie stone
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…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Ardjachie Stone
Highland
A single red sandstone boulder carries two carving traditions centuries apart: Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) cup-and-ring marks beneath a Pictis…
- Near Tain
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Ardlair Stone
Aberdeenshire
Carved with the Pictish beast, a tuning fork and a mirror, the stone ties this quiet Aberdeenshire field into the still-unresolved symbol tradition…
- Near Kennethmont
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Asthall barrow
Oxfordshire
A seventh-century cremation burial yielded a Merovingian glass bottle, a silver bowl and gilded drinking-horn fittings: grave goods placing an obsc…
- Near Asthall
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Balluderon Stone
Angus
Only the lower half of this Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) cross slab survives, yet l…
- Near Dundee
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Benty Grange hlaew
Derbyshire
Its low mound in a Peak District field hid the first Anglo-Saxon helmet ever found: the one with a bronze boar glaring above a Christian cross.
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Birnie Symbol Stone
Moray
The Birnie Symbol Stone preserves a compact seventh-century Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Blowing Stone
Oxfordshire
A pierced boulder said to have summoned King Alfred's army before Ashdown - and to have lent Thomas Hughes a piece of Victorian schoolboy slang.
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Bowstones
Cheshire
A round cross-section and an unusual pairing set these two Anglian shafts apart from almost every other stone cross of their age in England.
- Near Disley
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
Brent Ditch
Cambridgeshire
A surviving stretch of a lost linear frontier, still standing 2 to 3 metres high in woodland beside the old A11 where four sister earthworks once c…
- Near Abington
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Bullion Stone
City of Edinburgh
The only Pictish carving to show a man drinking: a bald, bearded rider on a tired horse, lifting a horn that ends in a startled bird's head, cut ju…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Cairnton stone
Aberdeenshire
Found in a field-clearance heap in 2001, its incised crescent-and-V-rod and triple disc symbols mark a seventh-century Pictish (of the Picts, the p…
- Near Newmachar
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Camus Cross
Angus
One of only two intact freestanding crosses surviving in eastern Scotland, its carving points to Irish monastic influence rather than the Viking le…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Cerne Abbas Giant
Dorset
The Cerne Giant is one of England’s best-known hill figures, a monumental chalk image whose striking design and unresolved origins continue to driv…
- Near Cerne Abbas
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach a' Charridh
Highland
A carved cross faces the sea while Pictish beasts and a hunting scene face the land on the reverse: a single stone holding two entirely different v…
- Near Inverness
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach a' Mheirlich
Highland
A single monolith carries two separate ages of use: raised in the Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC), then marked centuries later with Pictish (of th…
- Near Rosskeen
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach an Tiompain
Highland
A carved eagle on a Pictish stone became, centuries later, the marker for a clan battle and the trigger for a seer's flood prophecy.
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach Biorach
Highland
A Bronze Age pillar over three metres tall was reused two thousand years later as a canvas for Pictish carving: a salmon, a double-disc and a Z-rod…
- Near Edderton
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Pictish & early medieval
Clattern Bridge
Greater London
Built around 1175, this three-arched crossing over the Hogsmill is still carrying full modern traffic on its Norman stonework, making it one of Eng…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Clonmacnoise
County Offaly
A river crossing where the Slighe Mhór met the Shannon drew high kings, scholars and craftsmen from across Europe for centuries, leaving Ireland's…
- Near Clonmacnoise
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dandaleith stone
Moray
A Pictish symbol stone whose carver broke with convention, spreading incised emblems across two adjacent granite faces: an arrangement thought to b…
- Near Elgin
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Drosten Stone
Angus
One of the few Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) stones datable to a precise reign, its…
- Near St Vigeans
- 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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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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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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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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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Edderton Cross Slab
Highland
One slab, two scenes: a plain ringed cross on one face, three processing horsemen beneath a cross on the other, recently raised to reveal riders bu…
- Near Edderton
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Elgin Pillar
Moray
A tall granite Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) stone found buried beneath Elgin's old…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Faxton
Northamptonshire
A whole medieval village vanished here, yet its church furnishings survive scattered: in a London museum, in three neighbouring churches, and recas…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Fordoun Stone
Aberdeenshire
For generations the stone served as ordinary paving in the church floor, its carved face walked over underfoot before being rediscovered and stood…
- Near Auchenblae
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Gairloch Stone
Highland
A carved salmon and the broken remains of a bird - rare survivors of a Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from abou…
- Near Gairloch
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
God's House Tower
Hampshire
One of England's earliest purpose-built cannon forts survives here fused onto a medieval town gate, its gunports still facing the water it was rais…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Gosforth Cross
Cumbria
A single carved stone shows a Christian crucifixion and Norse gods sharing the same four faces, caught mid-way between two belief systems rather th…
- Near Gosforth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Greensted Church
Essex
Greensted Church retains rare oak-wall construction from the late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman period, making it an exceptional survivor in debates…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Halton Cross
Lancashire
A dismantled Anglo-Saxon cross reused as a sundial for two centuries, its surviving shaft carries what one archaeologist called the clearest carved…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Heysham rock-cut tombs
Lancashire
Eight graves cut straight into the bedrock, some shaped to the human body and fitted with sockets for stone or wooden crosses: a form of burial fou…
- Near Lancaster
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Hilton of Cadboll Stone
Highland
Broken by a storm, stripped for a memorial, and split between two museums and a modern replica, this Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern…
- Near Hilton of Cadboll
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Holy Trinity Church, Colchester
Essex
Holy Trinity Church is Colchester’s oldest standing building and its only surviving Anglo-Saxon structure, preserving a rare Saxon tower, later med…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Hunter's Hill Stone
Angus
Its rear face still carries an older set of incised symbols beneath a later relief-carved cross: one of only two stones nearby known to have been r…
- Near Glamis
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Irton Cross
Cumbria
Carved in the early ninth century, it stands stylistically between the Bewcastle and Gosforth crosses, though its own runic inscription has never b…
- Near Irton
- 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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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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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Lang Stane of Auquhollie
Aberdeenshire
Carved in Ogam: an alphabet devised for Irish, not Pictish, speech: the stone has anchored more than a century of scholarly argument over how far I…
- Near Stonehaven
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Maiden Stone
Aberdeenshire
A slab of red granite standing some three metres high, carved on every face with Christian crosses, Pictish beasts and a legend of the Devil's forf…
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum
Perth and Kinross
Twenty-seven Pictish stones pulled from the ruins of a church that burned in 1869, now in the village schoolhouse: including one carved by the Pict…
- Near Meigle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Mên Scryfa
Cornwall
Mên Scryfa preserves an early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) Latin inscription on a standing stone, connecting…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
Nico Ditch
Greater Manchester
Nico Ditch is a six-mile early-medieval earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) crossing Greater Manchester…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Nigg Stone
Highland
A shattered, staple-mended slab carries the oldest known depiction of a European triangular harp alongside carving so fine it is thought to share c…
- Near Nigg
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Old Minster, Winchester
Hampshire
For over a century this was reputedly the largest church in Europe, and the resting place of Anglo-Saxon kings whose bones now lie in chests around…
- Near Winchester
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Papil Stone
Shetland Islands
Carved on a single face of stone left otherwise plain, the Papil Stone rises to a large, long-stemmed cross shaped like a fan, its shaft crowded be…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Portmahomack sculpture fragments
Highland
Roughly 200 carved stone fragments, most no bigger than a handspan, add up to one of the largest collections of Pictish (of the Picts, the people o…
- Near Portmahomack
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Reask
County Kerry
At the centre of a walled compound a kilometre east of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, a single cross-inscribed standing stone rises from the grass, surrou…
- Near Dingle
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
Rock of Cashel
County Tipperary
A limestone outcrop that held the crown of Munster for six centuries before its last king simply gave it to the Church: a rare handover from royal…
- Near Cashel
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Rodney's Stone
Moray
Its Ogham inscription is the longest to survive from Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) S…
- Near Forres
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Rosemarkie sculpture fragments
Highland
Fourteen carved fragments, including a slab showing Daniel in the lion's den, reveal a Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Sc…
- Near Rosemarkie
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Rosemarkie Stone
Highland
Broken in two and hidden for centuries under a church floor, this cross-slab carries the only Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eas…
- Near Rosemarkie
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Sandbach Crosses
Cheshire
Sandbach’s paired ninth-century Anglo-Saxon crosses are an extraordinary public survival: carved with biblical scenes and interlace, dispersed afte…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Sarre Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Kent
Described after its 1863 excavation as arguably the richest Anglo-Saxon burial ground yet discovered, it was later found to be far larger than the…
- Near Sarre
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Andrew's Church, Penrith
Cumbria
Two Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft monuments in the churchyard, the Giant's Grave and the Giant's Thumb, predate the present Georgian church by eight cent…
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Botolph's Church, Ruxley
Greater London
St Botolph’s Church, Ruxley is a rare intact medieval church ruin that survived 400 years as a farm building, preserving its form within a modern g…
- Near Winchester
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Stanwick
North Yorkshire
A medieval parish church stands inside the ramparts of an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) oppidum, its churchyard holding a 9th-…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Waithe
Lincolnshire
A working Anglo-Saxon tower still stands at the centre of a church rescued from vandalism and bat guano and restored at a cost of nearly £350,000.
- Near Waithe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Wareham
Dorset
St Martin’s Church is Dorset’s most complete Anglo-Saxon church, preserving early architecture, rare medieval wall paintings and later memorials wi…
- Near Wareham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
Bristol
A single medieval tower stands alone in a modern park, the only fragment left after a night of bombing reduced the rest of the church to rubble.
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Michael's Church, Muncaster
Cumbria
A scheduled Anglo-Saxon high cross stands in the churchyard beside a Grade I church whose windows carry a rare medieval Doom scene and Victorian gl…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Oswald's Church, Winwick
Cheshire
St Oswald's Church, Winwick is a Grade I listed church whose medieval fabric, Anglo-Saxon cross fragment and later rebuilding preserve almost a mil…
- Near Winwick
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham
Lancashire
The rock-cut tombs beside the ruin later reached a far wider audience than archaeology ever could, appearing on the cover of a Black Sabbath album,…
- Near Heysham
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Peter's Church, Heysham
Lancashire
A blocked Anglo-Saxon doorway, an early Norman chancel arch and a carved Viking hogback stone sit inside one working parish church: three distinct…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum
Angus
Two plain sandstone cottages beside an Angus church hold 38 carved Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD…
- Near St Vigeans
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Stapleford Cross
Nottinghamshire
Pevsner called it by far the most important pre-Conquest monument in Nottinghamshire. Its shaft is round below and square above.
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Strathmartine Castle Stone
Angus
Carved with the Pictish beast and the crescent and V-rod, the stone was recycled as ordinary wall-stone for generations before Dundee Museums rescu…
- Near Dundee
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Sueno's Stone
Moray
At 6.5 metres tall it is the largest surviving Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) cross-s…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Updown early medieval cemetery
Kent
Updown is a large seventh-century cemetery near the Kentish royal centre of Eastry, revealing Christian burial practice and long-distance ancestral…
- Near Eastry
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Welbeck Hill
Lincolnshire
One grave held grave goods rivalling Sutton Hoo in craftsmanship: a runic silver bracteate, cruciform brooches, and cushion covers sewn with matchi…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Winchester Palace
Greater London
Winchester Palace’s surviving hall and rose window recall a powerful bishop’s London residence on the Thames, where royal visitors, river supply, t…
- Near Winchester
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Wolverhampton Pillar
West Midlands
Seven bands of vine scroll, animal and acanthus carving make this the only known English cross shaft worked in a rare southern continental Baroque…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Woodwrae Stone
City of Edinburgh
The Woodwrae Stone is a richly carved Class II Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) cross-s…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Broomend of Crichie stone
Aberdeenshire
A Pictish symbol stone: the Picts held northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900: carved with the enigmatic 'beast' and crescent-and-V…
- Near Port Elphinstone
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Crowle Stone
Lincolnshire
Crowle Stone is a richly carved Anglo-Saxon cross shaft with a runic inscription, preserved through reuse in the Norman rebuilding of St Oswald’s C…
- Near Crowle
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Darenth Country Park
Kent
Darenth Country Park protects a Saxon burial ground within a former hospital landscape, combining nationally important archaeology with chalk-grass…
- Near Dartford
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dingwall Stone
Highland
A Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) symbol stone carved on both faces, possibly recut fr…
- Near Dingwall
- Easy path
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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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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Invereen Stone
Highland
Invereen’s accidental discovery saved a precisely carved Pictish stone: of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300…
- Near Aviemore
- 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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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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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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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Lunnasting stone
Shetland Islands
The Lunnasting stone is a slab of slate, 44 inches (1.1 m) long, about 13 inches (0.33 m) wide and just an inch (2.5 cm) thick, carrying an ogham i…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Mucking (archaeological site)
Essex
Mucking is Britain’s largest excavation, exposing 3,000 years of settlement and one of the earliest, most extensive Anglo-Saxon communities and cem…
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Nendrum Monastery mill
County Down
Nendrum’s tide-mill remains are the earliest excavated of their kind, showing early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Norma…
- Near Comber
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Poolewe Stone
Highland
A carved crescent, v-rod and a pair of spirals fused into a pelta survive on a single stone that sat unknown until 1992: a Pictish (of the Picts, t…
- Near Poolewe
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Spong Hill
Norfolk
Spong Hill is the largest known Early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery, containing 2,259 cremations and 57 inhumations that reveal a regional burial…
- Near North Elmham
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
St Orland's Stone
Angus
St Orland’s in-situ cross-slab joins a richly interlaced Christian cross to symbols, hunters, a boat and beasts, preserving a remarkably complex pr…
- Near Glamis
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Pictish & early medieval
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
Suffolk
An archaeological site and open-air museum with traces of habitation from the first farmers onward.
- Near West Stow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
White Island, County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh
White Island preserves an early medieval: roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans: Lough Erne church whose Romanesque: the round-ar…
- Near Kesh
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