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An architectural oddity Ardclach Bell Tower is an architectural oddity. It is very small – about 4.3m2 overall – and has only two storeys. The ground floor may well have been a prison, judging by its small door and lack of windows. The flo...
A feature in the landscape This burial tomb has been a feature of the landscape for 5,000 years. It is surrounded by prehistoric remains spanning thousands of years of human activity. The original tomb was a small, round cairn with a central b...
Uniquely Scottish Carn Liath is a fine example of a broch – a type of fortification found only in Scotland. There are well over 500 of them across the country, the majority in northern and western Scotland and the islands. Brochs emerged in ...
One of Scotland’s oldest castles The Castle of Old Wick was probably built by an earl of Caithness in the 1100s, making it one of the oldest castles in Scotland. It was built at a time when the kings of Norway held sway over Caithness and Su...
Cnoc Freiceadain Long Cairns are two unexcavated long-horned burial cairns of Neolithic date, set at right angles to each other....
Homes of the dead The two Grey Cairns of Camster are among the oldest stone monuments in Scotland. They were built over 5,000 years ago. Even before their excavation and restoration by Historic Scotland in the later 20th century they were two ...
Hill O' Many Stanes has more than 22 rows of low slabs arranged in a slightly fan-shaped pattern, which may have been a prehistoric astronomical observatory....
Inverlochy Castle is a fine well-preserved 13th-century castle of the Comyn family; in the form of a square, with round towers at the corners. The largest tower of Inverlochy Castle was the donjon or keep. Inverlochy Castle is one of Scotland,...
St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk is a simple dry-stone chapel, probably of 12th-century date. Access to St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk can be muddy....
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William....
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