Stirling Castle (24)
The earliest historical evidence of fortifications here on Stirling's rock, is the dedication of a chapel by King Alexander I in 1110.  A site with such striking natural defences, let alone its strategic importance, would obviously have been in use long before that.  While no actual evidence has survived to indicate that the Romans or the Votadini, or the Picts who were all here in the first millennium A.D. fortified the rock, it is inconceivable that they would not have done.  Stirling Castle has been attacked or besieged on at least 16 occasions, and the consequent rebuilding has erased all indications of its earliest history.
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