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Glenbuchat Castle is a fine example of a Z-plan tower house, built in 1590. Glenbuchat Castle last laird, John Gordon, was a notable Jacobite....
Cullerlie Stone Circle is a circle of eight stones enclosing an area consecrated by fires on which eight small cairns were later built. The Cullerlie Stone Circle is about 4000 years old....
Culsh Earth House is a well-preserved underground passage, with roofing slabs intact over the large chamber and entrance. Culsh Earth House is about 2000 years old....
Corgarff Castle and Barracks Corgarff Castle is not as ordinary as the visitor might imagine on first seeing it in its lonely moorland setting. The unusual appearance of the little tower is confirmed as the visitor draws near and makes out mor...
The Picts and their symbols on Brandsbutt Symbol Stone The Picts were descendants of Iron-Age tribes who occupied the lands north of the Forth and Clyde estuaries in the first millennium AD. We know very little about them, but lasting reminder...
One castle and three dynasties For over 500 years, Balvenie Castle served as the formidable stronghold of the great lords who ruled over this part of north-east Scotland. The immensely powerful ‘Black’ Comyn earls of Buchan built it in the...
Cochrane’s Castle? Auchindoun Castle is believed to have been built by Thomas Cochrane (sometimes erroneously called Robert). This shadowy, late 15th-century figure was a favourite of King James III. It is said that Cochrane built the great ...
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle is a recumbent stone circle about 4000 years old....
Dyce Symbol Stones are two Pictish stones, one with the older type of incised symbols and the other with symbols accompanied by a cross and decoration....
Duff house is a magnificent early Georgian mansion, designed by William Adam for the Earl of Fife. Duff House is now open as a Country House Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland....
Remarkable for its splendid architecture, Huntly Castle served as a baronial residence for five centuries. Many impressive features include a fine heraldic sculpture and inscribed stone friezes. The earliest stronghold on the site sheltered Robert...
The great castle of Kildrummy was the stronghold of the Earls of Mar. Although ruined, it remains a fine example of a 13th century castle with its curtain wall, four round towers, hall and chapel. Hitsory of Kildrummy Castle Noblest ...
Castle at the head of the point of land Kinnaird Head (cinn na h’airde in Gaelic) means ‘at the head of the point of land’. One look at the map is enough to show that this particular point of land beside Fraserburgh is no ordinary promon...
The Loanhead Stone Circle is best known of a group of recumbent stone circles, enclosing a ring cairn. Beside the Loanhead Stone Circle is a small burial enclosure....
The Maiden Stone is a Pictish cross slab that stands about 3 meters tall and probably dates to the 9th century AD. Its front is carved with a cross that has a human figure gripped by fish monsters at its top and its back has a range of Pictish symbol...
Memsie Cairn is a large stone-built cairn, possibly of Bronze Age date, but enlarged during field clearance during the last two centuries.
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Peel Ring Of Lumphanan is a great earthwork of 13th-century date was the site of a fortified residence, perhaps a hunting lodge of the Durward family.
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The nave and towers of St Machars Cathedral Transepts remain in use as a church, and the ruined transepts are in care. In the south transept is the fine tomb of Bishop Dunbar (1514-32).
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St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir is one of the finest medieval parish churches in Scotland, roofless, but otherwise entire. There is a rich early Romanesque doorway and a beautiful early 14th-century sacrament house, comparable with those at Deskford and K...
Tarves Medieval Tomb is a fine altar tomb of William Forbes, the laird who enlarged Tolquhon Castle. The carving is a remarkable survival....
Tolquhon Castle is noted for its highly ornamented gatehouse, Tolquhon is one of the most picturesque of the castles in the Grampian countryside.The gatehouse is a real gem, built not to deter, but to impress which it still contrives to do. The ma...
Slains Castle is a large imposing ruin fronting directly onto south facing cliffs about a kilometer east of Cruden Bay. You can walk to it from the village itself. There are, confusingly, two Slains Castles on this stretch of coast. The original l...
Deer Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Buchan, Scotland.[1] It was founded by 1219 AD with the patronage William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan,[2] who is also buried there. There was an earlier community of Scottish monks or priests. The not...
Deskford Church is the ruin of a small late medieval church with a richly carved sacrament house of a type characteristic of north-east Scotland....
Visit Dunnottar Castle for an unforgettable experience. A dramatic and evocative ruined cliff top fortress in a truly stunning setting. As you wander around the extensive buildings - from the keep through the barracks, lodgings, stables and storeh...
Kinkell Church are now the ruins of a 16th-century parish church, with fine sacrament house dated 1524, and the grave slab of Gilbert de Greenlaw, killed in battle in 1411.
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