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Aberlemno Sculptured Stones | | Range of Pictish sculptured stones depicting a hunting scene, battle scene and an army of men |
Affleck Castle | | 15th-century, L-shaped tower house |
Arbroath Abbey | | Arbroath Abbey is famous for its association with the Declaration of Arbroath |
Ardestie Earth House | | A curved underground gallery |
Brechin Cathedral Round Tower | | One of the two remaining round towers of the Irish type in Scotland |
Carlungie Earth House | | A complex underground structure of Iron Age date |
Caterthuns | | Two large hill forts |
Eassie Sculptured Stone | | An elaborately sculptured Pictish cross-slab |
Edzell Castle | | Ruined 16th-century castle with an early-17th-century walled garden |
Lindsay Burial Aisle | | Remains of the 14th-century Edzell Old Church |
Maison Dieu Chapel, Brechin | | Part of the south wall of a chapel, belonging to a medieval hospital founded in the 1260s |
Restenneth Priory | | A monastic house of Augustinian canons founded in 1153 |
St Orland's Stone | | A tall, Pictish cross-slab with a prominent, ornate cross |
St Vigeans Sculptured Stones | | A collection of over 30 Pictish carved stones |
Tealing Dovecot | | A dovecot of the late 16th century |
Tealing Earth House | | An Iron Age earth house or souterrain | |
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Ardchattan Priory | | The ruins of a Valliscaulian priory founded in 1230 and later converted to secular use. |
Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace | | The most complete charcoal-fuelled ironworks in Britain, founded in 1753. |
Carnasserie Castle | | Home of John Carswell, first Protestant Bishop of the Isles |
Castle Sween | | One of the earliest castles in Scotland |
Dunstaffnage Castle and Chapel | | Stronghold of the MacDougalls |
Eileach an Naoimh | | Ruins of Early Christian beehive cells, a chapel and a graveyard on a small island in the Firth of Lorne |
St Cormac's Chapel, Eilean Mor | | A chapel on a small island in the Sound of Jura. Site includes St Cormac's Cross and St Cormac's Cave |
Inchkenneth Chapel | | Medieval church |
Iona Abbey | | One of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites. |
Iona: Maclean's Cross | | A 15th-century free-standing cross |
Iona Nunnery | | One of the best-preserved medieval nunnery churches in the British Isles. |
Keills Chapel | | A small West Highland chapel housing a collection of 12th-century grave slabs |
Kilberry Sculptured Stones | | A collection of late-medieval sculptured stones gathered from the Kilberry estate. |
Kilchurn Castle | | Four-storey tower built in the mid-15th century by Sir Colin Campbell |
Kildalton Cross | | The finest intact high cross in Scotland carved in the late 8th century |
Kilmartin Glen: Achnabreck Cup And Ring Marks | | The exposed crest of a rocky ridge with well-preserved cup and ring marks of early prehistoric date. |
Kilmartin Glen: Ballygowan Cup And Ring Marks | | Cup and ring marks on natural rock faces, of early prehistoric date. |
Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Cup And Ring Marks | | Several groups of early prehistoric cup and ring marks on natural rock faces. Close to Dunchraigaig cairn. |
Kilmartin Glen: Cairnbaan Cup And Ring Marks | | Carved stone of the Bronze Age within Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: Dunadd Fort | | Well-preserved hill fort of Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn | | Bronze Age cairn within Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin | | Early Bronze Age burial cairn |
Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Sculptured Stones | | Early-medieval and medieval crosses of Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: Kilmichael Glassary Cup And Ring Marks | | Early prehistoric cup and ring carvings of Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: | Nether Largie Cairns | | A Neolithic and two Bronze Age cairns of Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: | Ri Cruin Cairn | | Bronze Age burial cairn within Kilmartin Glen |
Kilmartin Glen: | Temple Wood Stone Circles | | Standing stones of Kilmartin Glen dating to about 3000 BC |
Kilmodan Sculptured Stones | | A group of West Highland carved grave slabs exhibited in a burial aisle within Kilmodan churchyard. |
Kilmory Knap Chapel | | A small medieval chapel with a collection of typical West Highland grave slabs and some early medieval sculpture. |
Rothesay Castle | | Castle with a long and close association with the Stewart Kings of Scotland |
Skipness Castle and Chapel | | A 13th-century castle with a 16th-century tower house in one corner |
St Blane's Church, Kingarth | | A 12th-century Romanesque chapel |
St Mary's Chapel, Rothesay | | Late-medieval remains of the chancel of the Parish Church of St Mary | |
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Barsalloch Fort | | An Iron Age promontory fort, defended by a deep u-shaped ditch. |
Big Balcraig | | Cup and ring marked rocks. |
Caerlaverock Castle | | Castle with moat, twin towered gatehouse and imposing battlements |
Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns | | Two Neolithic burial cairns, of a type characteristic of Galloway. |
Cardoness Castle | | A well-preserved six-storey tower house of the McCulloch dating back to the 15th century. |
Carsluith Castle | | A well-preserved ruin of a tower house of 16th-century date. |
Castle of Park | | 16th-century L-plan tower house |
Chapel Finian | | Remains of a small chapel built in the Irish style |
Druchtag Motte | | An example of a motte castle |
Drumcoltran Tower | | A well-preserved mid 16th-century tower |
Drumtroddan Cup And Ring Marked Rocks | | Three groups of well-defined cup and ring marks on bedrock probably carved in the Bronze Age |
Drumtroddan standing stones | | An alignment of three prehistoric stones |
Dundrennan Abbey | | Cistercian abbey built in the latter half of the 12th century |
Glenluce Abbey | | Abbey founded around 1192 |
Kirkconnel Churchyard | | Ruined church and tombstones |
Kirkmadrine Early Christian Stones | | Three of the earliest Christian memorial stones in Britain |
Laggangairn Standing Stones | | Stones carved with early Christian crosses |
Lincluden Collegiate Church | | Remains of a collegiate church and the accommodation for its canons founded in 1389. |
Lochmaben Castle | | A Z-plan tower house |
MacLellan's Castle | | Late 16th-century noble residence |
Merkland Cross | | A carved wayside cross of the 15th century |
Monreith Cross | | A 10th-century carved stone cross |
Morton Castle | | A late-13th-century hall house, a stronghold of the Douglases |
New Abbey Corn Mill | | Fully restored water-powered corn mill |
Orchardton Tower | | Tower house of the mid-15th-century |
Rispain Camp | | Rectangular settlement defended by a bank and ditch |
Ruthwell Cross | | Anglian Cross dating from the end of the 7th century |
St Ninian's Cave | | Cave traditionally associated with St Ninian |
St Ninian's Chapel | | Restored ruins of a 13th-century chapel, probably used by pilgrims on their way to Whithorn |
Sweetheart Abbey | | Abbey founded by Lady Dervorgilla of Galloway in memory of her husband John Balliol |
Threave Castle | | A 14th-century tower built by Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, on an island in the River Dee |
Torhouse Stone Circle | | A Bronze Age stone circle consisting of 19 boulders |
Wanlockhead Beam Engine | | An early-19th-century wooden water-balance pump for draining a lead mine |
Whithorn Priory | | Cradle of Christianity in Scotland |
Wren's Egg | | Standing stone and Bronze Age cists | |
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Abbey Strand | | Late 15th-century abbey church |
Corstorphine Dovecot | | A large circular ‘beehive’ dovecot |
Craigmillar Castle | | A well-preserved medieval castle, with a tower house, courtyard and gardens. |
Eagle Rock, Cramond | | A much-defaced carving on natural rock |
Edinburgh Castle | | World-famous castle which dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh, |
Holyrood Abbey | | The ruined nave of the 12th- and 13th-century abbey church, and a three-storey building on Abbey Strand from the late 15th or early 16th century |
Holyrood Palace | | 16th-century residence of Scottish royal family |
Holyrood Park | | Historic landscape in the heart of the city, with dramatic crags and hills |
St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig Collegiate Church | | Shrine of St Triduana, a Pictish saint |
Trinity House | | Home to a collection of maritime memorabilia | |
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Aberdour Castle | | Castle with a walled garden and terraces with a dovecot |
Culross Abbey | | The remains of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1217 |
Dogton Stone | | Once a free-standing cross probably of 9th-century date |
Dunfermline Abbey | | The Abbey Church is the last resting place of many Scottish kings and queens |
Dunfermline Palace | | Former Scottish royal palace |
Inchcolm Abbey | | Group of monastic buildings located on the island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth |
Ravenscraig Castle | | One of the earliest artillery forts in Scotland |
Scotstarvit Tower | | Renowned as the home of Sir John Scot |
St Andrews Castle | | The main residence of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews |
St Andrews Cathedral | | Remains of medieval Scotland's largest and most magnificent church |
St Andrews: Blackfriars Chapel | | A vaulted side apse survives of this church of Dominican friars, which was built in about 1516. |
St Andrews: St Mary's Church, Kirkheugh | | Earliest collegiate church in Scotland |
St Andrews: West Port | | One of the few surviving city gates in Scotland |
St Bridget's Kirk | | The shell of a medieval church | |
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Ardclach Bell Tower | | A fortified bell tower built in 1655 on the hill above the parish church of Ardclach |
Beauly Priory | | The ruined church of a Valliscaulian priory, one of three founded in 1230 |
Bridge of Oich | | Suspension bridge |
Cairn o'Get | | A horned and chambered burial cairn |
Carn Liath | | A typical Sutherland broch |
Castle of Old Wick | | The ruin of the best-preserved Norse castle in Scotland |
Clava Cairns | | A well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery |
Cnoc Freiceadain Long Cairns | | Two unexcavated long-horned burial cairns of Neolithic date |
Corrimony Chambered Cairn | | An excavated passage grave of probable Bronze Age date |
Dun Beag | | A fine example of a Hebridean broch |
Dun Dornaigil | | A well-preserved broch |
Fort George | | The mightiest artillery fortification in Britain |
Fortrose Cathedral | | Beautiful red sandstone cathedral |
Glenelg Brochs: Dun Telve and Dun Troddan | | Two broch towers |
Grey Cairns of Camster | | Two chambered burial cairns of Neolithic date |
Hill O' Many Stanes | | More than 22 rows of low slabs |
Hilton of Cadboll Chapel | | The foundations of a small rectangular chapel, with a reproduction of a Pictish stone nearby |
Inverlochy Castle | | One of Scotland's earliest stone castles |
Knocknagael Boar Stone | | A rough slab incised with the Pictish symbols, kept in the Highland Council offices, Inverness |
Ruthven Barracks | | An infantry barracks erected in 1719 following the Jacobite rising of 1715 |
St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk | | A simple dry-stone chapel |
Urquhart Castle | | Once one of Scotland's largest castles, on the banks of Loch Ness | |
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Auchindoun Castle | | Castle built about 1480 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Mar |
Balvenie Castle | | Ruined castle built in the 12th century by a branch of the powerful Comyn family |
Burghead Well | | A rock-cut well |
Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery | | Distillery built in 1898 to produce malt whisky for Glasgow firm Wright and Greig's popular ‘Roderick Dhu’ blend |
Deskford Church | | Small late medieval church |
Duffus Castle | | One of the finest examples of a motte and bailey castle in Scotland |
Elgin Cathedral | | Home to Scotland's finest octagonal chapter house |
Elgin Cathedral: Bishop's House | | Partially ruined 15th-century defensible L-plan town house, within the precincts of Elgin Cathedral |
Elgin Cathedral: Pans Port | | The only surviving medieval archway of Elgin Cathedral's precinct walls |
Spynie Palace | | Residence of the bishops of Moray |
St Peter's Kirk and Parish Cross, Duffus | | Remains of a 14th-century western tower and a 16th-century vaulted porch |
Sueno's Stone | | Pictish monument | |
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Barnhouse | | Neolithic settlement |
Bishop's Palace, Kirkwall | | Palace built for the first bishop of Orkney |
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn | | Neolithic burial cairn |
Braeside chambered cairn | | Neolithic chambered cairn |
Breckness Castle | | 17th-century mansion house |
Broch of Gurness | | Iron-Age broch and surrounding settlement |
Brough of Birsay | | Site featuring Pictish and Norse power-base with Pictish well |
Brough of Deerness | | Site of an 11th-century norse chapel and Viking settlement |
Cobbie Row's Castle | | One of the earliest stone castles to survive in Scotland |
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn | | Neolithic chambered tomb |
Dounby Click Mill | | The last surviving horizontal water mill in Orkney |
Dwarfie Stane | | Neolithic burial chamber |
Earl's Bu | | Remains of a medieval manor house |
Earl's Palace, Birsay | | 16th-century remains of the residence of Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney |
Earl's Palace, Kirkwall | | 17th-century palace built by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney |
Eynhallow Church | | Ruined 12th-century monastic church |
Grain Earth House | | Iron Age earth house |
Hackness Martello Tower and Battery | | 19th century fort and battery on the island of South Walls |
Holland House, Papa Westray | | Early 19th century farm complex built by Laird Thomas Traill |
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn | | A massive tomb |
Huntersquoy chambered cairn | | Neolithic chambered cairn |
Knap of Howar | | Probably the oldest standing stone houses in north-west Europe |
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn | | An oval cairn with concentric walls enclosing a Neolithic chambered tomb |
Lady Kirk | | 17th-century church on the island of Westray |
Links of Noltland | | Sand dunes seal and protect significant prehistoric remains |
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn | | The finest chambered tomb in north-west Europe |
Midhowe Broch | | A well-preserved broch, with remains of later buildings around it |
Midhowe Chambered Cairn | | A megalithic chambered tomb of Neolithic date |
Noltland Castle | | A ruined Z-plan tower, built between 1560 and 1573 but never completed |
Orphir Round Church | | Remains of early 12th-century round church next to Earl's Bu |
Quanterness chambered cairn | | Neolithic chambered cairn |
Quoygrew settlement, Westray | | Medieval norse settlement on the island of Westray |
Quoyness Chambered Cairn | | A megalithic tomb containing a passage and main chamber, with six subsidiary cells |
Rennibister Earth House | | An Orkney earth house |
Ring of Brodgar | | A circle of upright stones with an enclosing ditch spanned by causeways, dating to late Neolithic period |
Skara Brae | | One of the best preserved groups of prehistoric houses in Western Europe, part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site |
Stenness Kirk | | 19th-century parish church |
St Boniface's Church, Papa Westray | | Historic church on Papa Westray |
St Magnus Church, Egilsay | | Ruin of a 12th-century church, graveyard still in use |
St. Mary's Chapel, Wyre | | Ruin of a 12th-century chapel and graveyard |
Stones of Stenness | | The remains of a stone circle surrounded by remains of a circular earthen bank |
Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn | | Neolithic chambered cairn |
Tormiston Mill | | A late example of a Scottish watermill |
Unstan Chambered Cairn | | A mound covering a stone burial chamber divided by slabs into five compartments |
Vinquoy chambered cairn | | Neolithic chambered cairn |
Watchstone | | Standing stone northwest of the Stones of Stenness |
Westside Church, Tuquoy | | A small 12th-century nave-and-chancel church |
Wideford Hill chambered cairn | | A Neolithic chambered cairn with three concentric walls and a burial chamber with three large cells | |
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Abernethy Round Tower | | One of the two round towers of Irish style surviving in Scotland, dating from the end of the 11th century. |
Ardunie Roman Signal Station | | The site of a Roman watch tower dating to the first century |
Balvaird Castle | | A late-15th-century tower on an L plan, extended in 1581 by the addition of a walled courtyard and gatehouse. |
Blackhill Camp | | Parts of the defences of two Roman marching camps lying to the north of Ardoch Roman Fort |
Burleigh Castle | | Complete ruin of a tower house of about 1500 |
Dunfallandy Stone | | A well-preserved Pictish cross-slab |
Dunkeld Cathedral | | Cathedral containing a fine effigy of the Robert III's brother |
Elcho Castle | | Complete 16th-century fortified mansion |
Fowlis Wester Sculptured Stone | | A tall cross-slab with Pictish symbols |
Huntingtower Castle | | The House of Ruthven containing a fine painted ceiling |
Innerpeffray Chapel | | A rectangular collegiate church founded in 1508 |
Kirkhill Roman Watchtower | | Remains of Roman watchtower dating to the 1st-century |
Lochleven Castle | | The setting for the most traumatic year in the life of Mary Queen of Scots |
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum | | Museum housing a collection of carved stones dating from the late eighth to the late tenth centuries |
Muir o' Fauld Roman Signal Station | | The site of a 1st-century Roman watch tower on the Gask Ridge |
Muthill Old Church and Tower | | Ruins of an important medieval parish church |
St Mary's Church, Grandtully | | A 16th-century parish church |
St Serf's Church, Dunning and Dupplin Cross | | Picturesque parish church with Pictish cross |
St Serf's Inch Priory | | Ruins of 12th-century priory on St Serf's Inch island in Loch Leven |
Stanley Mills | | A unique complex of water-powered cotton mills situated on the River Tay. |
Sunnybrae Cottage | | Possibly the oldest house in Pitlochry |
Tullibardine Chapel | | One of the most complete and unaltered small medieval churches in Scotland | |
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Cross Kirk, Peebles | | Remains of a Trinitarian Friary |
Dere Street Roman Road, Soutra | | Stretch of Roman road |
Dryburgh Abbey | | Medieval abbey ruins |
Edin's Hall Broch | | One of the few Iron Age brochs in lowland Scotland |
Edrom Arch | | Romanesque doorway in the graveyard of Edrom church |
Foulden Tithe Barn | | A two-storey barn used for storing payments made in grain to the parish church |
Greenknowe Tower | | Tower house built in 1581 |
Hermitage Castle | | 13/14th-century castle |
Jedburgh Abbey | | Abbey, founded in 1138, which was a frequent target for invading border armies. |
Kelso Abbey | | West end of the great abbey church of the Tironensians |
Melrose Abbey | | Ruined abbey on a grand scale with lavishly decorated masonry |
Melrose Abbey: Commendator's House | | 15th-century accommodations for the Abbey Commendator |
Smailholm Tower | | Well-preserved 15th-century rectangular tower | |
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Cambuskenneth Abbey | | Home to the tomb of James III and Queen Margaret and a display of medieval graveslabs and architectural fragments. |
Doune Castle | | A late-14th-century courtyard castle built for the Regent Albany |
Doune Roman Fort | | Roman fort from the 1st-century |
Dunblane Cathedral | | Medieval church. The lower part of the tower is Romanesque, but the larger part of the building is of the 13th century. |
Inchmahome Priory | | Augustinian monastery dating from 1238 set on an island in the Lake of Menteith |
Stirling Castle | | One of Scotland's grandest castles due to its imposing position and impressive architecture. |
Stirling: Argyll's Lodging | | A near-complete example of a 17th-century townhouse. |
Stirling: King's Knot | | Earthworks of a formal garden |
Stirling: Mar's Wark | | Renaissance mansion built by the Earl of Mar |
Stirling: Old Bridge | | A bridge built in the 15th or early 16th century | |