Historic Sites in Scotland
While it is often thought that Scottish history began with the Jacobites, there are thousands of much older historic sites and attractions in Scotland. These include Neolithic Standing stones and Stone Circles, Bronze Age settlements, Iron Age Brochs and Crannogs, Pictish stones, Roman forts and camps, Viking settlements, Mediaeval castles, and early Christian settlements. Scotland also played an important role in the development of the modern world, and there are many are industrial heritage sites and museums. A few of the best known are listed below:
Neolithic sites
Pictish stones and museums
Roman sites
Castles, Abbeys and Historic Houses
- Castle Tioram, Moidart
- Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness
- Stirling Castle
- Edinburgh Castle
- Blair Castle, Perthshire
- Scone Palace, Perthshire
- Iona Abbey, Mull, Argyll
- Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire
- St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney
- Arbroath Abbey, Angus
- Fort Augustus Abbey
- Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders
- Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders
- Glasgow Cathedral
- Linlithgow Palace, Midlothian
- Traquair House, Scottish Borders
- Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders
- Palace of Holyrood, Edinburgh
- Wallace Monument, Stirling
Historic sites and battles
Social History
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh has the largest collection of historic artifacts, but there are many other smaller museums in Scotland with important collections. See also History of Scotland and Tourism in Scotland.
