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    Tap o' Noth (category Pictish sites in Scotland)
    uk. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Milligan, Mark (14 May 2020). "Ancient Pictish Hillfort on Tap O' Noth had one of the largest post-Roman settlements in Scotland"...
    5 KB (431 words) - 09:00, 8 April 2024
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    Dundurn is the site of a Pictish hillfort in what is now Strathearn in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The fort was situated on a hill with the River Earn...
    2 KB (232 words) - 16:51, 5 March 2023
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    Pictish territory recorded during the Early Medieval period and located in the area of modern-day Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The author of the Pictish Chronicle...
    7 KB (830 words) - 18:00, 16 December 2023
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    Bervie Water, all of which discharge to the North Sea. Pictish stones and evidence of a Pictish hillfort have been found at Dunnicaer, a sea stack just north...
    5 KB (566 words) - 02:09, 31 January 2024
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    the presence of an Iron Age hillfort, likely Pictish, known as Dun Mor (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Mòr, meaning "Big Hillfort"). This is located on the burn's...
    4 KB (322 words) - 16:09, 28 March 2024
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    Bennachie (category Pictish sites in Scotland)
    foot of Bennachie. Breast-shaped hill Christian Maclagan Tap o' Noth Pictish hillfort Bennachie from the North. Peaks are from left to right: Mither Tap...
    10 KB (944 words) - 09:03, 8 April 2024
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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...
    5 KB (341 words) - 11:22, 16 March 2023
  • the fort, so its age is unknown. Another says it is Early Bronze Age to Pictish, possibly 2400 BC to 900 AD, and another says Count Moddan, one of the...
    5 KB (577 words) - 10:09, 27 September 2023
  • review of Pictish settlements (Alcock 1980), but his manifesto for his new research trajectory came in a publication looking at hillforts across Britain...
    16 KB (2,138 words) - 00:19, 23 November 2023
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    (Scottish Gaelic Dún Ad, "fort on the [River] Add", Old Irish Dún Att) is a hillfort in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, dating from the Iron Age and early medieval...
    9 KB (999 words) - 03:58, 23 January 2024
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    to the east is universally credited with being the last Pictish stronghold at the old hillfort there." An 18-turbine development, approved in June 2006...
    15 KB (1,899 words) - 13:11, 28 April 2024
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    environs, including the hillforts on Dunnichen hill and Dunbarrow hill. In the early 19th century, the Dunnichen Stone, a class I Pictish standing stone was...
    9 KB (905 words) - 01:29, 22 September 2023
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    Burghead Fort (category Pictish sites in Scotland)
    Burghead Fort was a Pictish promontory fort on the site now occupied by the small town of Burghead in Moray, Scotland. It was one of the earliest power...
    13 KB (1,484 words) - 02:30, 7 October 2023
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    district of Lorn) and Cenél Comgaill (who gave their name to Cowal). The hillfort of Dunadd is believed to have been its capital. Other royal forts included...
    59 KB (7,094 words) - 09:56, 21 April 2024
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    ancient or medieval fort. In Ireland and Britain it is mainly a kind of hillfort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse. The term comes from Irish dún or...
    10 KB (944 words) - 13:13, 29 January 2024
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    Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts. The Britons followed an Ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids. Some...
    42 KB (4,771 words) - 16:09, 11 May 2024
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    Age hillfort have been excavated on Battlehill on the outskirts of the town. During the first millennium CE the area was dominated by the Pictish culture...
    17 KB (1,902 words) - 22:09, 14 February 2024
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    Caterthun and the White Caterthun, hillforts dating from the Iron Age, can also be seen nearby. A number of Pictish symbol stones have been found in Menmuir...
    6 KB (535 words) - 06:44, 18 May 2022
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    A similar distribution to that of Pictish symbols led to the early suggestion that carved stone balls are Pictish artefacts.(p 55) The core distribution...
    21 KB (2,426 words) - 20:40, 15 April 2024
  • Traprain Law treasure is a hoard of late Roman hacksilver, found on the hillfort of Traprain Law (East Lothian, SE Scotland) during excavations in 1919...
    10 KB (1,079 words) - 12:13, 27 September 2023
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