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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.
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 summit of the hill is occupied by a vitrified fort; a stone structure affected by fire to produce a glass-like material. The inner wall of the fort defines an area around 75 by 23 metres (246 by 75 ft), and survives to a height of around 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in). Beyond this is an outer wall and part of a third wall or hornwork to the east.
The Knock of Alves is a small wooded hill that lies 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of Elgin in Moray, Scotland, rising to 335 feet (102 m) above ordnance datum. [1] Its summit is marked by York Tower, a 3-storey octagonal folly erected in 1827 to commemorate Prince Frederick, the Duke of York; and the Forteath Mausoleum, built in 1850 as the burial place of 7 members of the Forteath family of ...
The northern ridge is four kilometres long and has the vitrified fort of Dùn Deardail ("Fort of the Red Eye") [8] near its end, just before it joins Glen Nevis. The fort is probably named after Deirdre , the princess of Ulster , and is one in a line of vitrified forts that stretches from Craig Phàdraig (near Inverness ) to the west coast. [ 9 ]