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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dunnotar Castle - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

Submitted by Postman on Sunday, 27 August 2017  Page Views: 2301

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dunnotar Castle Alternative Name: Dunfoithir; Le Castiel De Dunostre; Dunnottar Rock
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Stonehaven  Nearest Village: Dunnotar Mains
Map Ref: NO881839
Latitude: 56.946208N  Longitude: 2.197229W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Postman : What a place (Vote or comment on this photo)
Dunnottar Castle occupies a coastal promontory of about 1.4 ha protected on all sides by precipitous cliffs and approachable only from the W. The promontory is probably the site of a fort beseiged in 681 and 694 and destroyed by the Vikings between 889 and 900.

This castle probably occupies the site of a prehistoric cliff fort, possibly also used by the Picts. St Ninian established a church here about the beginning of the 5th century
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Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine : 2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunnotar Castle
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Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine : Puffins, 2008

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine : 2008

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Antonine

Dunnotar Castler
Dunnotar Castler submitted by Postman : Mel Gibson filmed here in a movie version of Macbeth

Dunnotar Castle
Dunnotar Castle submitted by Postman : From more to the south

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 747m N 8° Dunnicaer Hillfort* Hillfort (NO88218464)
 2.0km WNW 300° Woods of Dunnottar Cairn* Cairn (NO864849)
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 6.4km NW 326° Findlayston Enclosure Ancient Village or Settlement (NO845892)
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 8.6km SW 225° Ley of Barras* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO82037779)
 8.8km WSW 255° Blackhill Wood* Chambered Cairn (NO796817)
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Re: Dunnotar Castle by Sunny100 on Monday, 17 September 2018
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I would say that the Picts were in Scotland between the 4th and 9th centuries AD, and certainly not in Prehistoric times. St Ninian was sometimes considered to be an evangelist amongst the Picts, in the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
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    Re: Dunnotar Castle by Andy B on Tuesday, 18 September 2018
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    Hello, I've clarified the text in the site listing to be "This castle probably occupies the site of a prehistoric cliff fort, possibly also used by the Picts."
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Re: Dunnotar Castle by Runemage on Monday, 17 September 2018
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Hello Hatty, I've noticed that you've challenged several of our contributors' comments recently.
I'm sure a thread posted on our General Forum would be a better place to have this type of discussion, rather than using our site pages.
If you'd like to start one to air your views, here's a link to our General Forum http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewforum&forum=2
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Re: Dunnotar Castle by Hatty on Thursday, 17 May 2018
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Postman wrote
"The promontory is probably the site of a fort beseiged in 681 and 694 and destroyed by the Vikings between 889 and 900."
No it is not a 'Viking' fort. Archaeologists looked and looked, no remains date earlier than 12th-13th century.

"This castle probably occupies the site of a prehistoric pictish cliff fort, St Ninian established a church here about the beginning of the 5th century"
Prehistoric yes, but why Pictish? A couple of 'Pictish' (engraved?) stones are thought to be part of Bowdun on the northern end of the bay. St Ninian's church is a fiction. Wiki calls it a later legend and a highly implausible one at that.

Such inaccuracies ought not to be posted here surely. It would be inadmissible on a history forum (except by apologists for the so-called Viking Age).
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