Tour Scotland Video of Dunnottar Castle

t Tour Scotland travel video of Dunnottar Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the North East Coast of Scotland. A ruined medieval fortress located upon a precipitous rocky headland about two miles south of Stonehaven. Its surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but an important fortress certainly existed on this site from Dark Age times. Dunnottar played an important role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, due to its strategic location overlooking the shipping lanes to northern Scotland and also being situated on a fairly narrow coastal terrace that controlled land movements, particularly the land access to the ancient Causey Mounth, the only medieval route from the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen.



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