Sacred place · Prehistoric
Elgin Cathedral
Moray
Known as the Lantern of the North, it was Scotland's second-largest medieval cathedral and uniquely combined an English-style octagonal chapter hou…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Moray
17 places in Moray, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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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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Minor monument · Medieval
Ogston Market Cross, Michael Kirk, Gordonstoun
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…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Auchinhove
Moray
Auchinhove is a large Roman marching camp east of Keith, discovered from the air in 1949 and preserving evidence of Roman military movement in Moray.
- Near Keith
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballindalloch Castle
Moray
Continuously lived in by one family since 1546, its Z-plan tower survived a burning by Montrose's men and a feud that ended in murder at a neighbou…
- Near Ballindalloch
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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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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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Fortified place · Iron Age
Doune of Relugas
Moray
Doune of Relugas is a long-occupied promontory hillfort, a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts, overlooking the Findhorn valley, where a tim…
- Near Dunphail
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duffus Castle
Moray
Its stone tower still leans bodily off the earthen motte it was built on, frozen mid-collapse: a rare, visible lesson in why timber-age mounds made…
- Near Elgin
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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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Fortified place · Roman
Inchtuthil / Castra Pinnata
Moray
A Roman fortress whose longest day Ptolemy recorded as 18.5 hours, one of only four such observations he held from Britain.
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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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Fortified place · Roman
Muiryfold
Moray
A Roman marching camp of over 41 hectares, hidden until aerial photography found its ditches from the air in 1959: physical proof that Severus's le…
- Near Keith
- 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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Fortified place · Medieval
Spynie Palace
Moray
For roughly five hundred years this was the working seat of the Bishops of Moray, and its tower still stands as the largest medieval tower house in…
- Near Elgin
- Some walking
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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
More places in Moray
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cluny Hill
Moray
Cluny Hill brings together a confirmed prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks…
- Near Forres
- Some walking
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