Urquhart Castle dominates a rocky promontory jutting into Loch Ness. That promontory has hosted some famous names in its long ...
Eilean Donan Castle is one of the most recognised castles in Scotland. It is, without doubt, a Scottish icon and certainly on ...
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms. It ...
Glenfinnan Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line. Located at the top of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands, th ...
The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britai ...
Ardvreck Castle is thought to have been constructed around 1590 by the Clan MacLeod family who owned Assynt and the surroundi ...
Castle Tioram ruins sits on the tidal island Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart, Lochaber. The castle is the traditional seat of C ...
Ackergill Tower was built in the early 16th century. The Clan Keith, under John Keith of Inverugie, inherited the lands of Ac ...
Dun Dornaigil is an Iron Age broch in Sutherland. The broch has an external diameter of about 14.5 metres. The walls generall ...
The Grey Cairns of Camster are two large Neolithic chambered cairns in the Highland region of Scotland. They are among the ol ...
Carbisdale Castle was built in 1905-1917 for the Duchess of Sutherland on a hill across the Kyle of Sutherland. The castle ha ...
Castle Roy is one of the oldest castles of its type in Scotland unique in that it is largely unaltered, whilst most other cas ...
Built some 4,000 years ago, Corrimony Cairn is a passage grave of the Clava type. Built by neolithic farmers, skilled in work ...
The Hill O Many Stanes is an area with about 200 upright stones, none more than a metre high. The rows are not parallel, howe ...
Ballone Castle is a large late 16th century Z-plan tower house. It consists of a main block of three storeys and a garret, an ...
Càrn Liath is an Iron Age broch on the eastern shore of the Scottish Highlands. The broch has an external diameter of ...
Keills Chapel is a simple, rectangular chapel dedicated to St Cormac. It is one of few churches from the 1100s and 1200s surv ...
Invergarry Castle was the seat of the Chiefs of the MacDonells of Glengarry, a powerful branch of the Clan MacDonald. It was ...
Mingarry Castle was considered a strategically important site in terms of communication with overseas areas and as an entranc ...
Kilravock Castle was originally built around 1460 and has been the seat of the Clan Rose since that time. The castle is a com ...
Kinlochaline Castle is a 12th-century Scottish castle located at the head of Loch Aline, positioned strategically for coastal ...
Crosskirk Broch was a fortification near the present day hamlet of Crosskirk. After thorough archaeological exploration it wa ...
Keiss Castle is a partially ruined castle which was replaced by the Keiss House around 1755. The old castle was built possibl ...
Erchless Castle was built in the 13th century by the Bissetts and it came into the hands of the Chisholms. It was remodelled ...
Lochindorb Castle is a former stronghold of the Clan Comyn and is built on what now is said to be an artificially created isl ...
Rait Castle is a ruined hall-house castle dating from the 13th century. The remains of the courtyard walls are nine feet high ...
Although the Skibo Castle dates back to the 12th century, the present structure is largely of the 19th century, and early 20t ...
Dalcross Castle is a classic Scottish tower house complete with a beamed Great Hall and large fireplace, a stone spiral main ...
Dounreay Castle dates from the late 16th century, and is one of the few remaining examples of a Scottish Laird’s castle ...
Castle Grant was the former seat of the Clan Grant chiefs of Strathspey in Highlands. The castle is a Z-plan tower house that ...
Dunbeath castle is first recorded on the rocky peninsula at Dunbeath in 1428, when the lands belonged to the Earl of Caithnes ...
Forse Castle ruins dates from c. 1200 in the hamlet of Forse. The castle stands on a peninsula about 50 metres above sea leve ...
Castle Leod is the seat of the Clan Mackenzie. The castle is believed to have been built on the site of a very ancient Pictis ...
Ousdale Broch is an Iron Age broch located near the small settlement of Ousdale. It has an external diameter of around 16 met ...