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The port of Linlithgow Blackness Castle stands beside the Firth of Forth, at the seaport which in medieval times served the royal burgh of Linlithgow. The castle was built in the 15th century by one of Scotland’s more powerful families, the ...
A unique holy place Cairnpapple Hill is one of the most important prehistoric sites in mainland Scotland. When Professor Piggott of Edinburgh University excavated there in 1947–8, he discovered the summit of the hill crowned with ceremonial ...
Castlelaw Hill Fort is an Iron Age hill fort with a souterrain built in one of the ditches....
Chesters Hill Fort is one of the best-preserved examples in Scotland of an Iron Age fort defended by an elaborate system of ramparts and ditches....
Corstorphine Dovecot is a large circular 'beehive' dovecot in a good state of preservation with nesting boxes complete....
A well preserved medieval castle, Craigmillar has a tower house, courtyard and gardens. Craigmillar's story is linked with that of Mary Queen of Scots. Superb views from tower house....
A hidden gem Crichton Castle stands tucked away out of sight, on a terrace overlooking the River Tyne in Midlothian. It was a noble residence for some 200 years, from the late 14th century through to the close of the 16th century. It was seldo...
A residence of three noble families Dirleton Castle has graced the heart of Dirleton since the 13th century. For the first 400 years, it served as the residence of three noble families – the de Vauxes, Haliburtons and Ruthvens. The subsequen...
The Doonhill Homestead site is marked out in the grass, of a wooden hall of a 6th-century British chief, and of an Anglian chief's hall, which superseded it in the 7th century, revealed by aerial photography followed by excavation in the 1960s. A ra...
The Dunglass Collegiate Church was founded in 1450 for a college of canons by Sir Alexander Hume. The handsome cross-shaped building contains a vaulted nave, choir and transepts, all with stone slab roofs....
Eagle Rock: Cramond is a much-defaced carving on natural rock said to represent an eagle. Near the Drum Sands within the Firth of Forth, an internationally important site for feeding and roosting waders and winterfowl....
Hailes Castle is a beautifully sited ruin incorporating a fortified manor of 13th century date, extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. There are two vaulted pit-prisons....
Holyrood Abbey is the ruined nave of the 12th and 13th century abbey church. The church was built for Augustinian canons. The abbey and palace administered by the Lord Chamberlain. Access to Holyrood Abbey is through the Palace of Holyroodhouse,...
Within Holyrood Park is a wealth of history and archaeology spanning thousands of years. Arthur's Seat is one of four hill forts dating from around 2000 years ago. Holyrood Park is a scheduled ancient monument and a site of special scientific int...
Kinneil House and Kinneil Museum are set in a public park, the oldest part of the house is a 15th century tower remodelled by the Earl of Arran between 1546 and 1550 and transformed into a stately home for the Dukes of Hamilton in the 1660s. The g...
Lauderdale Aisle, St Mary's Church is the former sacristy of the great 15th-century parish church, with a splendid monument of early 17th-century date, in marble, with alabaster effigies....
Ormiston Market Cross is a symbol of the right of the inhabitants to hold a market, this is a fine free-standing 15th-century cross on a modern base....
Preston Market Cross is the only surviving example of a market cross of its type on its original site. A beautiful piece of early 17th-century design, with a cylindrical base surmounted by a cross-shaft headed by a unicorn....
Serving the Setons Seton is one of the finest medieval collegiate churches surviving in Scotland. Its story begins in the 12th century, when the site was chosen for a new church serving the parishioners of Seton. In the 15th century, the churc...
St Martin's Kirk is the ruined nave of a once splendid Romanesque church, altered in the 13th century. St Martin's Kirk is associated with the Cistercian nunnery St Mary's, founded in Haddington before 1159....
The lower part of a chapel built by James III, housing the shrine of St Triduana, a Pictish saint. The hexagonal vaulted chamber is unique...
Stronghold of the Douglases Mighty Tantallon Castle was built in the 1350s by a nobleman at the height of his power. In 1354, William Douglas came into possession of all his father’s lands, as well as those of his uncle, ‘the Good Sir Jame...
The tower and transepts of a church built by the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the 13th century, much altered....
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