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
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Angus
27 places in Angus, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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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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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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
White Caterthun
Angus
The neighbouring Brown Caterthun was repeatedly altered during the latter half of the first millennium BC; White Caterthun preserves the contrastin…
- Near Brechin
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Mains Of Edzell
Angus
Edzell’s square pigeon house, with diagonally opposed turrets and a later ruined extension, makes the working architecture and changing needs of th…
- Near Edzell
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Fortified place · Medieval
Affleck Castle
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…
- Near Monifieth
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Sacred place · Medieval
Arbroath Abbey
Angus
In 1320 the Declaration of Scottish Independence: the Declaration of Arbroath: is believed to have been drafted here by Abbot Bernard, Chancellor o…
- Near Arbroath
- Easy path
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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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Fortified place · Roman
Battledykes
Angus
Assessed to have sheltered 50,000 to 60,000 men, this is one of the largest Roman camps ever built in Scotland: a single night's stop on a campaign…
- Near Forfar
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Brechin Cathedral
Angus
A near-millennium-old round tower and an intricately carved Viking-age hogback stand beside a Gothic cathedral, forming one of Scotland's most comp…
- Near Brechin
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Colmeallie stone circle
Angus
By 1853, elderly locals in Glen Esk still recalled the circle looking fuller, before stone-robbing thinned it: a rare glimpse of a monument's decli…
- Easy path
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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
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
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
Edzell Castle and Garden
Angus
Its walled garden is carved with the only known Scottish set of relief panels depicting planetary deities and the liberal arts, a Renaissance survi…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ethie Castle
Angus
A working seat still lived in by a clan chief, Ethie carries the Trafalgar arms of an admiral earl and the murdered cardinal who once held it.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Finavon Castle
Angus
Finavon Castle combines the ruins of a 17th-century L-plan tower-house with excavated evidence of a larger medieval predecessor, preserving a long-…
- Near Finavon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glamis Castle
Angus
One family, the Lyons, has held this Strathmore estate since the 1370s, and its rooms have hosted a murdered king, a woman burned for witchcraft, a…
- 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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Fortified place · Roman
Inverquharity
Angus
One of the smallest Roman installations in Scotland, grouped by archaeologists with Cargill II as the pair's most modest members rather than a majo…
- Near Kirriemuir
- 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
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
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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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tealing Earth House
Angus
Its walls incorporate two Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) stones carved with cup-and-ring marks, built by Iron Age…
- Near Tealing
More places in Angus
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caterthun
Angus
Two Iron Age hillforts crown the same ridge: fortified settlements built by communities living before and during the early centuries of recorded hi…
- Some walking
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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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