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    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...
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    Dunnichen (Scots pronunciation: [dəˈnɪxən]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Eachain) is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar. It...
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    George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo FRSE FSA (Scot) (1732–1818) was a Scottish advocate, landowner, agricultural improver and politician who sat in...
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    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...
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    side. Dingwall Stone in Dingwall — Class I stone Dunnichen Stone, a class I stone found at Dunnichen, Angus, now on display at the Meffan Institute in...
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  • George Dempster may refer to: George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732–1818), Scots lawyer and member of Parliament George Roby Dempster (1887–1964), American...
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  • Cruickshank, Graeme (1991), The Battle of Dunnichen: an account of the Pictish victory at the Battle of Dunnichen, also known as Nechtansmere, fought on...
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    May 2002). The First Battle for Scottish Independence: The Battle of Dunnichen, A.D. 685 (MA thesis). East Tennessee State University. Clutton-Brock...
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    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...
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  • This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Dunnichen in Angus, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • ISBN 0-140-44727-X Fraser, James, The Pictish Conquest: The Battle of Dunnichen 685 & the birth of Scotland. Stroud: Tempus, 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3962-6...
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    Barry Brechin Careston Carmyllie Clova Cortachy Coupar Craig Dun Dundee Dunnichen Eassie Edzell Farnell Fern Forfar Fowlis Easter Glamis Glenisla Guthrie...
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    Council of Western Australia from 1895 to 1898. Alexander was born in Dunnichen, Forfarshire, Scotland. He came to Australia in 1866, and initially lived...
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    Undeterred, Ecgfrith marches his army north to engage the enemy near Dunnichen. The Picts, possibly with Scottish and Strathclyde Briton help, defeat...
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    Scotland from the Firth of Forth to Shetland. Good examples include the Dunnichen and Aberlemno stones (Angus), and the Brandsbutt and Tillytarmont stones...
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  • Rivers Ecgfrith of the Northumbrians defeated the Picts. 685 Battle of Dunnichen King Bridei Mac Bili defeats the Northumbrians. Ending Northumbrian hegemony...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Craichie (Scots pronunciation: [ˈkɾeːxe]) is a hamlet in the parish of Dunnichen, Angus, Scotland. Craichie is three miles south-east of Forfar and two...
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    The battle scene from the Aberlemno Pictish stone, generally presumed to show the Battle of Dunnichen in 865...
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    other Pictish symbols, it may have been a clan or lineage indicator. Dunnichen Stone; Class I with double disc and Z rod Aberlemno 3 rear face detail;...
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    (1793–1873), Linlithgow and owner of St Magdalene distillery George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo (1732–1818), advocate, landowner, agricultural improver, politician...
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    Northumbria and the Irish genealogies. Ireland, C. A., in Celtica 22 (1991)]. Dunnichen in Angus has, until recently, been the preferred site; see e.g. Kirby...
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    in Angus, including a collection of Pictish stones, particularly the Dunnichen Stone and the Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones as well as Roman and Medieval...
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    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...
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    [citation needed] craft shop. The village is part of the parish of Letham, Dunnichen and Kirkden. In and around the Village is an extensive pattern of green...
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  • discounting earlier hypothesis that it indicated wealth. Aberlemno 1 Dunnichen Stone Kirriemuir 1 Forsyth, Katherine (1995). "Some thoughts on Pictish...
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