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Knockfarrel or Knock Farrel, or indeed Knock Farril (stone fort) is a vitrified pictish Iron Age fort which lies on the knockfarrel hill, immediately to the north of the village, [2] and which it gave its name to the village. The walk up to the fort is a popular tourist attraction.
Vitrified fort, England, 1829. Vitrified forts are generally situated on hills offering strong defensive positions. Their form seems to have been determined by the contour of the flat summits which they enclose. The walls vary in size, a few being upwards of 12 feet (3.7 m) high, and are so broad that they present the appearance of embankments.
The Tap o' Noth is a hill and the name of a Pictish hill fort on its summit, [2] 8 miles south of Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at grid reference NJ485293. It is the second highest fort in Scotland and its main feature is its well-preserved vitrified wall which encloses an area of approximately 100 m by 30 m, 0.3 hectares.
Pages in category "Vitrified forts in Scotland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Knock of Alves This page was last ...
Bennachie from the east, Aberdeenshire Remains of the fort at Dunadd, Kilmartin, Argyll Animated LIDAR data of The Doon, or Drimadoon coastal hillfort, on the Isle of Arran Traprain Law, East Lothian Arthur's Seat, viewed to the north-north-east from Blackford Hill Trig Point Prospect from Craig Phadrig, looking westward along the southern shore of the Beauly Firth Edin's Hall Broch ...
Trusty's Hill is a small vitrified hillfort about a mile to the west of the present-day town of Gatehouse of Fleet, in the parish of Anwoth in the Stewartry district of Dumfries and Galloway. The site is notable for a carved Pictish stone located near the entrance to the fort, one of only a handful of such stones found outside the core Pictish ...
The earliest account of the Battle of Drumchatt of 1497 was written by Sir Robert Gordon (1580–1650) in his manuscript A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (written in the early 17th century and published in 1813).
Mote Hill is the northern tip of the Gowanhills, Stirling, the northern half of the Royal Park that extends around Stirling Castle. The wider park includes the King's Knott and sections of a 2-metre-high deer wall, first established in the 12th century, though Gowan Hill only became park of the Royal Park around 1500.