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ID: 1100255
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1100255
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Dunnottar Castle (ruins)  Dunnottar Castle (ruins)

Coordinates:
Lat: 56 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 56.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 002 11 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.1833  decimal degrees

Note: Isolated ruin located on rocky crag surrounded on three sides by sea & rocks; was site of Pictish fort & early Christian chapel; oldest surviving buildings date from 1392, built by Sir William Keith; was gradually dismantled after 1716.

Names:
Dunnottar Castle (preferred,C,V,English,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Scotland (country)  ............  Scotland (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Aberdeenshire (unitary authority)  ................  Aberdeenshire (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Dunnottar Castle (ruins)  ....................  Dunnottar Castle (ruins) (P)

Place Types:
ruins (preferred, C)  ............  first fortified in 7th cen., castle constructed in 14th cen.
castle (H)
prison (H)  ............  over 100 Covenanters were imprisoned here in 1685

Sources and Contributors:
Dunnottar Castle..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 258
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 59
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 258
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2594928
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 59
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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