Ancient World

Dunnicaer

Dunnicaer, or Dun-na-caer, is a precipitous sea stack just off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, between Dunnottar Castle and Stonehaven. Despite the unusual difficulty of access, in 1832 Pictish symbol stones were found on the summit and 21st-century archaeology has discovered evidence of a Pictish hill fort which may have incorporated the stones in its structure. The stones may have been incised in the third or fourth centuries AD but this goes against the general archaeological view that the simplest and earliest (Class I) symbol stones date from the fifth or even seventh century AD. Additionally, there it is the possibility that Dunnicaer was a Roman trade fortification, similar to the Drumanagh fort promontory in Ireland, according to the "Archaeological Journal" of the University of Aberdeen.

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• ▸Church of Zion, Jerusalem
• ▸Dzhetyasar culture
• ▸Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park

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