Historic Scotland & National Trust for Scotland places in Angus

Pictish symbol stones and a great cross-slab carved with a battle scene, in Aberlemno village near Forfar; free, open at all times, but the stones are boxed for the winter until 1 April 2027.

William the Lion's red sandstone abbey of 1178, where the Declaration of Arbroath was sent in 1320, with its towering west front, Round O window and a visitor centre on the Declaration; adult £8.50, half price in the first EH year.

An Iron Age earth house near Monikie in Angus, its curving 24-metre stone passage and the footings of the buildings above it unusually complete; free, open all year, a short path from a lay-by off the B962.

A 25-metre Irish-style round tower of about 1100 beside Brechin Cathedral, one of only two in Scotland, with a carved doorway high above the ground; free, seen from outside when the cathedral grounds are open.

A pair of Iron Age hill forts on neighbouring heather hills west of Edzell, the White Caterthun ringed by a huge band of tumbled stone; free and open all year, short walks from a small roadside bay.

One of the largest and most complex earth houses in Scotland, 40 metres of stone passages of about AD 50 in a field near Newbigging, Angus; free, open all year, over a stile and along a mown path.

One of the earliest Pictish cross-slabs, carved in the late 600s with a cross, an angel and a hunter on foot, in a glass shelter in Eassie's ruined church near Glamis; free, open all year.

Red sandstone castle of the Lindsays near Edzell with a unique walled garden of 1604, its walls carved with the virtues, arts and planets; open April to September at weekends, adult £8.50, half price in the first EH year.

The only surviving part of Edzell's medieval parish church, a red sandstone chantry chapel of about 1550 that became the Lindsay family's burial aisle; free, exterior and grille views at any time.

The ruined priory of Restenneth near Forfar, its tower of about 1100 crowned by a medieval spire, where Robert the Bruce buried his infant son; free, open 10:00 - 16:00, no entry inside the buildings.

38 carved Pictish stones from a royal and religious centre of 1,000 years ago, including the inscribed Drosten Stone, in cottages near Arbroath; open April to September on three days a week, adult £8.50, half price in the first EH year.

A banana-shaped Iron Age earth house 25 metres long beside a dovecot of 1595 at Tealing, with a cup-and-ring stone reused in its wall; free, open April to September only, reopens 1 April 2027.

One of Scotland's last working water-powered corn mills, turning every open day beside a burn walk full of dippers and kingfishers.

William Adam's Georgian house above Montrose Basin, with Jacobite symbols hidden in its baroque plasterwork and the Angus Folk Collection in the courtyard.

The weaver's cottage where the creator of Peter Pan was born, with the wash house that was his first theatre and the desk he wrote the play at.