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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.
The NPS has been "stretched thin" since 2010, with a 20% reduction in park service staff in the last 15 years, Brengel said. "This means that people have to do collateral duties," Brengel said.
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 ...
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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 ...
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