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Perdieus Mount, Dunfermline

Open to visitorsa Historic Environment Scotland site — many are free to wander; staffed ones charge and keep set hours

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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A motte-and-bailey castle once stood here — today it survives as earthworks in Fife. It is the only motte-and-bailey castle the Albion Guide maps in the county. The site is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.

The nearest railway station, Dunfermline Town, is under a kilometre away. Rosyth Castle and Blackness Castle are among the castles within 7.4 km.

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