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The highest fort on the Antonine Wall containing the foundations of the headquarters building and bath-house. To the east sits a small Iron Age fort. The wall ditch runs past both. This is the best site to appreciate the strategic significance of ...
Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House is the well-preserved remains of a bath-house and latrine, built in the 2nd century AD to serve a small fort....
Though the fort is not visible, the wall ditch survives and there are two beacon platforms. Here the Romans had to cut through solid rock to create the ditch....
Antonine Wall: Dullatur is a well preserved section of ditch. To the north is Dullatur Marsh, an important habitat for birds, including water rail, teal, snipe, grasshopper warbler, whinchat and mute swan....
Antonine Wall: Seabegs Wood is a stretch of rampart and ditch with the military way behind....
Antonine Wall: Westerwood to Castlecary is a well preserved historic section of ditch....
A rare survival The Barochan Cross is one of only three complete free-standing crosses surviving from the early-medieval kingdom of Strathclyde. The other two are the so-called ‘Sun Cross’ at Govan and the Netherton Cross, in Hamilton. The...
Creating a stink For upwards of 130 years – from 1839 to 1973 – Biggar Gasworks made coal-gas for the town and surrounding district. It was one of the first small-town gasworks to open in Scotland, and among the last to close. Not long aft...
One of Scotland’s greatest castles Bothwell Castle is one of the outstanding monuments of medieval Scotland. It owes its origins to Walter of Moray, a northern aristocratic family who acquired Bothwell in 1242. He (or his son William, kn...
Constructed between 1500 and 1550, Cadzow Castle was known as the castle in the woods of Hamilton. The castle was built by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart for his half brother, the second Earl of Arran. The property overlooks a parkland known as ...
A late Gothic church, with a three-sided east end with windows of unusual style. The church is located next to Castle Semple and Barr lochs, both important for their plants and birds. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB has a visitor c...
Coulter Motte is a good example of a Norman castle mound, which would have been surmounted by a palisade and timber tower....
A hidden gem Hidden away in the rolling hills of Clydesdale, Craignethan Castle is the last great private stronghold constructed in Scotland. It was without parallel, comprising an exceptional residential tower protected by a most unusual arti...
The altered ruin of an unusual 15th-century castle. The property consists of a central tower with four square corner towers, set within 12th-century earthworks. Affords excellent views of south-west Glasgow. Strong footwear recommended....
Defender of the realm Dumbarton Castle guards the point where the River Leven joins the River Clyde. Its recorded history reaches back 1,500 years. At that time the place was known as Alt Clut, ‘Rock of the Clyde’. Later it became known by...
Head church of the diocese of Glasgow Glasgow Cathedral stands majestically in the heart of Scotland’s largest city. It is the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the Protestant Reformation of 1560 virtually int...
The choir and south side of the nave of a late 14th-century parish church. The choir contains three canopied monuments to the Douglas family, including the tomb of Good Sir James who famously carried Bruce's heart on Crusade....
Maxwell’s house Newark Castle is a rediscovered treasure. For too long it lurked behind the giant cranes and sheds of the Clyde’s great shipyards. Only recently has it re-emerged to take its rightful place in the townscape of Port Glasgow....
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