Dunnichen (Scots pronunciation:[dəˈnɪxən]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Eachain[1]) is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar.[2] It is close to Dunnichen Hill, at which the Battle of Dun Nechtain is popularly believed to have been fought. The church is part of the parish of Letham, Dunnichen and Kirkden.
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^"Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 978-0-319-22980-4
site has long been thought to have been near the present-day village of Dunnichen in Angus. Recent research, however, has suggested a more northerly location...
Dunnichen (Scots pronunciation: [dəˈnɪxən]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Eachain) is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar. It...
The Dunnichen Stone is a class I Pictish symbol stone that was discovered in 1811 at Dunnichen, Angus. It probably dates to the 7th century AD. The exact...
Pictish Beast are carved on the south-facing side. Dunnichen Stone, a class I stone found at Dunnichen, Angus, now on display at the Meffan Institute in...
George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo FRSE FSA (Scot) (1732–1818) was a Scottish advocate, landowner, agricultural improver and politician who sat in...
May 2002). The First Battle for Scottish Independence: The Battle of Dunnichen, A.D. 685 (MA thesis). East Tennessee State University. Clutton-Brock...
Cruickshank, Graeme (1991), The Battle of Dunnichen: an account of the Pictish victory at the Battle of Dunnichen, also known as Nechtansmere, fought on...
a flower, is called the Dunnichen Stone. It was found in the early 19th century when a farmer from the East Mains of Dunnichen was ploughing. It was initially...
George Dempster may refer to: George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732–1818), Scots lawyer and member of Parliament George Roby Dempster (1887–1964), American...
Rivers Ecgfrith of the Northumbrians defeated the Picts. 685 Battle of Dunnichen King Bridei Mac Bili defeats the Northumbrians. Ending Northumbrian hegemony...
Chalmers on the basis of its placename it has generally been associated with Dunnichen in Angus, a location supported by the presence of a carved battle scene...
Scotland from the Firth of Forth to Shetland. Good examples include the Dunnichen and Aberlemno stones (Angus), and the Brandsbutt and Tillytarmont stones...
in Angus, including a collection of Pictish stones, particularly the Dunnichen Stone and the Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones as well as Roman and Medieval...
Bede, Ecclesiastical History IV.26. Fraser, Battle of Dunnichen, p. 47. Fraser, Battle of Dunnichen, pp. 43-4. D.P.Kirby, Earliest English Kings, p. 86...
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Position(s) Goalkeeper Youth career 1883–1885 Dunnichen FC Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1885–1889 Arbroath 1889–1890 Blackburn...
tributary to them until, in 685, Bridei defeated them at the Battle of Dunnichen in Angus, killing their king, Ecgfrith. In the reign of Óengus mac Fergusa...
at what is now called the Battle of Dun Nechtain, located at either Dunnichen in Angus or Dunachton in Badenoch. This defeat, in which most of Ecgfrith's...
Undeterred, Ecgfrith marches his army north to engage the enemy near Dunnichen. The Picts, possibly with Scottish and Strathclyde Briton help, defeat...
Dempster, the illegitimate younger half brother of George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo, a director of the East India Company from 1769, and a key figure...
by an unknown artist of the member of parliament, George Dempster of Dunnichen, and a portrait by John Watson Gordon of the former provost of St Andrews...
owners of Restenneth following the Reformation was George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732-1818), who chose part of the choir as a burial site for his family...
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