Editing List of historic sites in Scotland

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There are thousands of historic sites and attractions in [[Scotland]].  These include [[Neolithic]] [[Standing stone]]s and [[Stone Circles]], [[Bronze Age]] settlements, [[Iron Age]] [[Broch]]s and [[Crannog]]s, [[Picts|Pictish]] stones, [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] forts and camps, [[Viking]] settlements, [[Mediaeval]] castles, and early [[Christianity|Christian]] settlements.  Scotland also played an important role in the development of the modern world, and there are many industrial heritage sites and museums. A few of the best known are listed below:

==Sites and monuments==
===Neolithic sites===
*[[Callanish]], [[Isle of Lewis|Lewis]]
*[[Corrimony]], [[Glen Urquhart]] ([[Glenurquhart]])
*[[Croft Moraig Stone Circle|Croftmoraig]], [[Perthshire]]
*[[Kilmartin Glen]], [[Argyll]]
*[[Machrie|Machrie Moor]], [[Isle of Arran|Arran]]
*[[Maeshowe]], [[Orkney]]
*[[Ring of Brodgar]], [[Orkney]]
*[[Skara Brae]], [[Orkney]]
*[[Standing Stones of Stenness]], [[Orkney]]

===Pictish stones===
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===Roman sites===
*[[Antonine Wall]], [[Scottish Lowlands]]
*[[Trimontium (Newstead)|Trimontium]], [[Scottish Borders]]

===Castles===
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===Abbeys===
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===Cathedrals===
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===Historic houses===
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===Monuments===
*[[Wallace Monument]], [[Stirling]]
*[[National Monument, Edinburgh]]
*[[Nelson Monument, Edinburgh]]
*[[Scott Monument]], Edinburgh

===Historic sites and battles===
*[[Battle of Stirling Bridge|Stirling Bridge]], 1297
*[[Battle of Bannockburn|Bannockburn]] 1314
*[[Battle of Killiecrankie|Killiecrankie]], 1689
*[[Glenfinnan]], (Raising of Standard in 1745, see [[Jacobitism]])
*[[Battle of Culloden|Culloden]], 1746

==Museums==
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==See also==
*[[History of Scotland]] 
*[[Tourism in Scotland]].

==External links==
*[http://www.historicenvironment.scot/ Historic Environment Scotland (official government agency)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101125083531/http://www.nts.org.uk/Home/ The National Trust for Scotland] 
*[http://www.nms.ac.uk National Museums of Scotland]

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