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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 ...
A. H. A. Hogg identified four types of hillfort: contour forts, promontory forts, cliff forts and ridge forts. Contour forts, where banks and ditches are moulded to the shape of the hill, are the dominant form in Scotland. [4]
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 "Hill forts in Scotland" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Dunnottar Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope") [1] is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the northeast coast of Scotland, about 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.
The fort, on a rounded hill a short distance south of Portmore Loch, has well-preserved defences. There is an inner rampart, 73 metres (240 ft) north-north-west to south-south-east by 64 metres (210 ft), enclosing an area of 0.35 hectares (0.86 acres).
Hillforts are fortified settlements that were built across Europe in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and, to a lesser extent, the Early Middle Ages.The following pages are lists of hillforts:
It has traditionally been thought that these forts were meant to prevent invasions out of the Scottish Highlands into Roman-held territory. [12] This may have been the intention, in cooperation with the other forts on the Gask Ridge and along Strathmore , as only the legionary fortress of Inchtuthil with 5,000–6,000 soldiers would have been ...