Fortified place · Medieval
Cambuskenneth Abbey
Stirling
Cambuskenneth Abbey, a provostry of canons regular on land enclosed by a meander of the River Forth near Stirling, was founded by order of King Dav…
- Near Stirling
- 263 metres from car park
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Stirling
13 places in Stirling, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Law, Dumyat
Stirling
A hillfort of the Maeatae with a thousand-year gap in its occupation: and a Jubilee beacon on the summit now filled with other people's wishes.
- Near Blairlogie
- 947 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Inchmahome Priory
Stirling
Reached only by a motor boat that runs from March to September, Inchmahome holds the roofless thirteenth-century buildings of a monastic house foun…
- Near Port of Menteith
- 998 metres from car park
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Cross, Doune
Stirling
The capital carries the arms of Moray and Campbell, two sundials and a lion: a good deal of information packed onto the top of one shaft.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Church of the Holy Rude
Stirling
One of only three churches still in use in Britain where a monarch has been crowned: and for 280 years it was two churches, divided by a wall down…
- Near Stirling
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coldoch Broch
Stirling
Cleared out just before 1870. A plan was drawn, and the excavation report never appeared.
- Near Doune
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Doune Castle
Stirling
Only two ranges of the intended courtyard were ever finished, and the stonework is almost all late fourteenth century: repaired, but never replaced.
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Fortified place · Roman
Drumquhassle
Stirling
A Flavian glen-blocker fort found from the air in the 1970s: and given a name chosen to be hard for the English to say.
- Near Drymen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dunblane Cathedral
Stirling
A cathedral whose nave stood roofless for nearly three centuries: and which holds the finest medieval woodwork in Scotland after King's College, Ab…
- Near Dunblane
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Killin Stone Circle
Stirling
Six schist slabs in a flattened ring by Loch Tay, with three cupmarks ground into the top of the northernmost.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Leckie Broch
Stirling
An Iron Age broch: a drystone tower unique to Iron Age Scotland: that rhododendrons closed off entirely until they were cleared in 2020.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Stirling Castle
Stirling
The castle Edward I kept bombarding after it had already surrendered, because he wanted to try out his new trebuchet.
More places in Stirling
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wallace Monument
Stirling
Garibaldi helped pay for it. A statue of Wallace with Mel Gibson's face stood at the foot of the crag until the public loathing became unmanageable.
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