Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Oak
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Oak, sometimes known as Macbeth's Oak, stands on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Perth and Kinross
38 places in Perth and Kinross, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Fortingall Yew
Perth and Kinross
Fortingall Yew is a named yew tree beside the church at Fortingall in Perth and Kinross. Its precise age is not independently confirmed here.
- Near Fortingall
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Neil Gow's Oak
Perth and Kinross
A bench beneath this oak was engraved with a line from a Michael Marra song about sitting under it with Niel Gow's ghost. A falling branch destroye…
- Near Dunkeld
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Birnam Sycamore
Perth and Kinross
Birnam Sycamore stands near Birnam Oak on the south bank of the River Tay and is associated with the surviving edge of Birnam Wood.
- Near Birnam
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Katie Wearie's Tree
Perth and Kinross
Katie Wearie’s Tree was a named Linlithgow memorial to a drover girl, preserved in an early twentieth-century postcard even though little else is k…
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Ancient tree
Lady's Tree
Perth and Kinross
An osprey called Lady nested in this Scots pine for twenty-four years, laid 71 eggs and raised 50 chicks. The tree is named after the bird.
- Near Perth and Kinross
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Croft Moraig Stone Circle
Perth and Kinross
Croft Moraig is a complex multi-phase monument. Excavation in 1965 revealed three phases of construction: first a horseshoe of fourteen timber post…
- Near Kenmore
- 3.1 km from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tullibardine Chapel
Perth and Kinross
A large part of the chapel dates to 1446, when it was built by Sir David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine, of Tullibardine Castle, as a family chapel…
- Near Auchterarder
- 1 min walk from car park
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Main Street, Longforgan
Perth and Kinross
Removed to the grounds of Castle Huntly at the end of the eighteenth century, and not put back on Main Street until 1989.
- Near Longforgan
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Mercat Cross, Kettins
Perth and Kinross
A stump of medieval shaft, two feet three inches high, with a font from before the Reformation set on top of it: two separate objects made into one…
- Near Kettins
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Perth Mercat Cross, Fingask Castle
Perth and Kinross
A cross assembled out of loose window tracery, standing beside a font carried here from Kinnaird: both given nineteenth-century dates that the ston…
- Near Perth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Abernethy Round Tower
Perth and Kinross
One of only two Irish-style round towers in Scotland, the other at Brechin Cathedral.
- Near Abernethy
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Fortified place · Roman
Ardoch Roman Fort
Perth and Kinross
Five ditches deep on two sides, and among the best-preserved Roman earthworks anywhere in the Empire.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Balvaird Castle
Perth and Kinross
Carved heads support the roundels on the wall-walk, and the cap-house over the stair is a miniature tower house of its own: detail that may have be…
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Fortified place · Roman
Bertha (Perth)
Perth and Kinross
A Roman fort north of Perth at the meeting of the Almond and the Tay.
- Near Perth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Blair Castle
Perth and Kinross
The ancestral home of Clan Murray and historic seat of the Dukes of Atholl.
- Near Blair Atholl
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Fortified place · Medieval
Burleigh Castle
Perth and Kinross
A fifteenth- and sixteenth-century castle just outside Milnathort, north of Kinross.
- Near Kinross
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Building or ruin · Roman
Carpow Roman Fort
Perth and Kinross
A thirty-acre Roman fort at the meeting of the Tay and the Earn, held from the late second century into the early third.
- Near Carpow
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castle Law, Abernethy
Perth and Kinross
A contour fort above Abernethy, scheduled since 1964: older than the medieval lordship in the village below, and with no recorded connection to it.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castle Law, Forgandenny
Perth and Kinross
A multiple-enclosure hillfort above Forgandenny whose banks and ditches are effectively its entire history: the written record has almost nothing t…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Menzies
Perth and Kinross
A sixteenth-century Z-plan seat of the Menzies chiefs, sold off in pieces after 1910 and bought back by the clan society half a century later.
- Near Weem
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumglow
Perth and Kinross
A burial cairn - a mound of stones raised over a grave - sits inside the ramparts of the fort on this summit.
- Near Dunfermline
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dundurn, Scotland
Perth and Kinross
The Annals of Ulster record a siege here in 683 and the death of a king in 889 - a fort of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland f…
- Near St Fillans
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunkeld Cathedral
Perth and Kinross
A cathedral begun in 1260 and finished in 1501, standing on a Columban monastery whose reused red sandstone still shows as a streak across the east…
- Near Dunkeld
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunsinane Hill
Perth and Kinross
Nineteenth-century antiquarians came here because of Macbeth and dug the hill fort apart. Little of value was learned.
- Some walking
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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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Fortified place · Medieval
Elcho Castle
Perth and Kinross
Nearly burned in 1773 by a crowd who found it full of grain being held back for export during a famine.
- Near Rhynd
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Fortified place · Roman
Glenbank
Perth and Kinross
The Romans pulled it down themselves when they left. Aerial photography found it again in 1983.
- Near Dunblane
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntingtower Castle
Perth and Kinross
The Ruthven name was suppressed by Act of Parliament in 1600, and the castle had to be renamed. It had been Ruthven Castle for centuries.
- Near Perth
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Fortified place · Roman
Inchtuthil
Perth and Kinross
The only legionary fortress in the Roman empire whose complete plan survives: abandoned after four years, with 875,400 nails buried in a pit so the…
- Near Dunkeld
- Some walking
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Settlement · Medieval
Lochleven Castle
Perth and Kinross
Besieged in 1335 by an English force that dammed the loch to drown it. The captain went off to a saint's festival, and the defenders broke the dam.
- Some walking
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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 · Prehistoric
North Mains
Perth and Kinross
Two pits and a cremation were placed here before the henge was built: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with th…
- Near Crieff
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Scone Palace / Scone Abbey
Perth and Kinross
The crowning place of forty-two Kings of Scots and the site of Scotland's first parliament: now a Gothic Revival house with nothing left standing o…
- Near Perth
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Fortified place · Roman
Strageath
Perth and Kinross
One of the chain of forts along the Gask Ridge, and the name survives in three farms and a mill.
- Some walking
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Megginch Castle
Perth and Kinross
The weathervane on top is a model of the East Indiaman General Elliot, which Captain Robert Drummond commanded from her launch in 1783: at the age…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Village And Market Cross, Rossie
Perth and Kinross
Two lions and two unicorns share the top of this cross, holding up a ball finial between them.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Black Hill Roman Camps
Perth and Kinross
Two Roman camps within the extensive military complex centred on the fort at Ardoch.
- Some walking
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