Historic Buildings in Scotland
Monuments and Memorials
Monument Gallery
 Alexander
III - a
memorial stands by the side of the A921 near Kinghorn to mark
the spot near where the king died in 1286.
 John Cobb - a memorial cairn stands by the side of the A82, as it runs alongside Loch Ness heading north to Drumnadrochit,
to mark where Cobb was killed on the loch in 1952
while trying to break the water speed record.
 The Glenfinnan Monument
stands at the head of Loch Shiel, near where the Jacobite Standard was raised
before the Rising of 1745.
 The Scott Monument in
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, is a monument to
the author Sir Walter Scott. There is also a
statue of the writer in Selkirk and his home, Abbotsford in the Borders,
contains many of his personal items including his writing desk and vast library.
 The National Wallace Monument
on the Abbey Craig, northeast of Stirling, was built
in honour of Sir William Wallace. There are a number of other statues in honour
of the Guardian of Scotland elsewhere through the country - at the entrance to
Edinburgh Castle; near Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders.
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