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
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in City of Edinburgh
13 places in City of Edinburgh, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craigmillar Castle
City of Edinburgh
Craigmillar Castle is one of Scotland's best-preserved medieval castles, combining a Preston tower house and defensive courtyards with the pivotal…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Cramond Roman Fort
City of Edinburgh
Cramond Roman Fort preserves evidence of Rome's Antonine and Severan campaigns at the River Almond, including inscriptions, a long-used road and th…
- Near Cramond
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edinburgh Castle
City of Edinburgh
One of Scotland's most important strongholds and a seat of royal power for centuries, Edinburgh Castle claims to be the most besieged place in Grea…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holyrood Abbey
City of Edinburgh
Holyrood Abbey is Edinburgh's ruined royal abbey, founded by David I and central to Scottish parliaments, coronations and palace life before a cata…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ravenswood standing stone
City of Edinburgh
The Ravenswood standing stone is a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) monument whose repeated moves and survival within an Edinburgh housing estate m…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Anthony's Chapel and Hermitage
City of Edinburgh
The chapel above St Margaret's Loch is one of Edinburgh's least explained medieval buildings: no foundation record survives, and the earliest firm…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Giles' Cathedral
City of Edinburgh
Its 1637 prayer-book riot lit the fuse for the National Covenant and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, earning St Giles' the title 'the Mother Church…
- Near Edinburgh
- 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
More places in City of Edinburgh
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cat Stane
City of Edinburgh
The Cat Stane combines a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) standing stone with a fifth- or sixth-century Latin funerary in…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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