Members Login
Buy membership
skip navigation
Home
Places to visit
Looking after our heritage
Learning & resources
News
About us
text size
A
A
A
You are here:
Home
»
Sitemap
Home
Places to visit
Search places to visit
About our properties
Access for all
Staffed properties map
Events
Explorer Pass
Travel trade
Products
Dumfries and Galloway Explorer Pass
Scottish Borders Explorer Pass
Orkney Explorer Pass
Your recommendations
Satellite navigation
Green Tourism Business Scheme
Grant aided properties
Hire a venue
Weddings
Edinburgh Castle
Stirling Castle
Catering
Rose Wedding Package
Thistle Wedding Package
Argyll's Lodging
Laigh Hall
High Dining Room
Urquhart Castle
Outer Close - Old Kitchens
Outer Close - Great Chamber Cellar
Visitor Centre
Aberdour Castle
Craigmillar Castle
Dirleton Castle
Linlithgow Palace
Other Venues
Caerlaverock Castle
Inchcolm Abbey
Castle Campbell
Doune Castle
Dryburgh Abbey
Edzell Castle and Garden
Elgin Cathedral
Huntingtower Castle
Wedding Photography
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact us
Corporate Events
Edinburgh Castle
Gatehouse Suite
Jacobite Room
Queen Anne Building
Luxury Edinburgh
Wine and Dine
Stirling Castle
Catering
Chapel Royal
Great Hall
Great Hall Vaults
Queen Anne Garden
Day Delegate
Gala Dinner
Medieval Banquet
Argyll's Lodging
Laigh Hall
High Dining Room
Alexander and Erskine Rooms
Urquhart Castle
Other venues
Gifts & Stationery
Hospitality Events
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Burns Night
St Andrew's Celebration
Christmas Packages
Contact us
Filming
Contact us
Online shop
Looking after our heritage
Valuing our heritage
What is the historic environment?
Why is the historic environment important?
Change in the historic environment
Battlefields
Carved stones
Policy & guidance
Prehistoric rock carvings
Early medieval carved stones
Architectural sculpture
Graveyards & gravestones
Sources of funding
Carved stones contacts
Coastal erosion
Historic landscapes
Marine historic environment
Urban regeneration
Wetlands
ePlanning
Climate change
Our role in climate change
Effect on historic environment
Energy efficiency research, guidance & advice
Research
Traditional buildings
Green tourism
Adapting to change
Further information
Historic & listed buildings
Historic buildings
How to search for a listed building
What is listing?
Propose a building for listing
The listing process
Listing programmes
About the list
Altering a listed building
Guidance for owners
Listing explained
Listed building consent
Repairs & caring for your listed building
Insurance
Dictionary of Scottish Architects
Publications and Online Documents
Inspectorate enewsletter
Scheduled monuments
What is a scheduled monument?
What is scheduling?
Examples of scheduled monuments
The scheduling process
How to search for a scheduled monument
Scheduled monument consent
Guidance for Owners & Occupiers
Grants for Ancient Monuments
Contact details
Gardens & designed landscapes
Protecting our gardens & designed landscapes
What is the Inventory?
Search for gardens & designed landscapes
Inventory documents
How we select sites for the Inventory
How we research sites
Contact us
Designated wreck sites
The role of Historic Scotland
Scotland's historic wrecks
What is a designated wreck site?
The designation process
The licensing regime
Guidance for marine users
World heritage
What is a World Heritage site?
Achieving world heritage status
World Heritage Sites in Scotland
St Kilda
The Old & New Towns of Edinburgh
New Lanark
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
The Antonine Wall
Archaeology
What is archaeology
Funding Scottish archaeology
Development-led archaeology
Rescue archaeology
Research archaeology
Our archaeology funding programme
Archaeology in the ploughlands
Human remains
Trunk road archaeology
Archaeology Techniques
Survey
Excavation
Dating techniques
Radiocarbon dating
Historic Scotland's Radiocarbon Dating programme
Radiocarbon dating search
Scottish burgh surveys
Scottish Archaeological Research Framework
Policy, research and environmental assessment
SHEP
Managing change in the historic environment guidance notes
Environmental assessment
Environmental impact assessment
Strategic environmental assessment
Scotland's Historic Environment Audit
Joint working agreement
The Historic Environment (amendment) Scotland Bill
What is the Bill?
Bill timetable
Stakeholder engagement
Documentation
Technical conservation
Our work
Conservation advice
Research
Training & skills development
Fellowship & internship programme
HLF Training Bursary Scheme
Conferences & seminars
Retail buildings seminar
Building Scotland conference
Energy efficiency and sustainability in traditional buildings conference
Initiatives
Laser scanning
Grants
Our priorities
Building repair grants
Repair grants for places of worship
Sponsorship fund
Voluntary sector funding
Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme
Ancient monument grants
Archaeology grants
Conservation training grants scheme
Thatched houses maintenance scheme
Maintenance plan grants
Landscape management plan grants
War memorials
BPTs in Scotland
Search for grant aided properties
Other sources of funding
Looking after ancient monuments
Looking after historic buildings
Research into the historic environment: archaeology & ancient monuments
Presenting & interpreting the historic environment
Scottish Castle Initiative
About the Scottish Castle Initiative
Castle Conservation Register
Search the Castle Conservation Register
Learning & resources
Educational groups
Free educational visits
How & when to book
Free planning visit
Travel Subsidy Scheme
Schools Activity Programmes
Early years & primary school Activities
Secondary school Activities
Continuing Professional Development Sessions
Stanley Mills Education
Outreach Programme
Free teachers' resources
Free support materials
Handling boxes
Hazard planning sheets
Free pupils' resources
News & Developments
FAQs
Ranger service
Conservation, training & skills development
Community & outreach
Free Publications
Image collection
Historic Scotland library
The library
News
Media releases
Media contacts
Conferences and speeches
Built and Historic Environment Summit 2009
In depth
Rowallan Castle
Supplementary documents
Castle Tioram
Supplementary documents
Public inquiry report
St Peter's
Avanti Architects report
Ministerial response to recent HEACS reports
Media resources
Stirling Castle Palace Project
St Vigeans
Orkney Venus
Homecoming
Register for news alerts
About us
Who we are
What we do
Management board
Chief Executive
Chief Inspector
Director of Properties in Care
Director of the Technical Conservation Group
Director of Finance
Director of Human Resources
Non-Executive Directors
Our groups
Review of Historic Scotland
Staff profiles
Ali Davey
John Fell
Joan Slight
Susan Loch
Barbara Smith
Christa Gerdwilker
Noel Fojut
Gillian MacDonald
Gregor Stark
David Tulloch
Corporate reports
Stakeholder research
Working for us
Benefits
Our employment values
Equal opportunities
Eligibilty
Security clearance
Our locations
Meet our people
FAQs
Freedom of information
About Freedom of Information
Sources of information
How to request information
Request information from the Publication Scheme
Make an FOI request
Make a request for personal information
Make a request for information in different formats
Exemptions
Charges
Copyright
Freedom of Information disclosures
Publications scheme
Who is responsible
FOI classes
Other rights of access
Complaints and feedback
Consultations
About our consultations
Current consultations
Closed consultations & responses
Procurement
The Procurement Unit
Contacts
Current tenders
Awarded tenders
The Selection process
Conditions of contract
How to become a supplier
Sustainable purchasing
eProcurement Scotland
Partnerships & related organisations
SEARS
Sponsorship
Scottish Design Awards
Young Scot Awards
Privacy policy
Crown copyright
Competitions
Contact us
Feedback
Fàilte
A' cur an turais agaibh air doigh
Aiteachan rim faicinn
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Taobh an lar na Gaidhealtachd
Earra Ghaidheal
Cothrom