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The Cultural Heritage and Historic Environment of Nigg
- The Sutors are rightly considered to be one of the great sights of the Highlands.
- Scotland's great twelfth-century king, William the Lion, built Dunskaith Castle, the remains of which can still be traced.
- In both World Wars this was a vital focus for Britain's defence.
- A grouping of fortified structures occupies the top of the western slopes of the Rarichies, Easter and Wester, above Shandwick, and very close to the site of the proposed windfarm.
- The Nigg Pictish cross-slab is acknowledged as the finest work of art of its period in Scotland.
- Hugh Miller, the famous nineteenth-century geologist, was one of the first to interpret the lesson of the fossil beds of the Black Isle and Nigg.
- Modern archaeological and art-historical science is opening up to an ever-widening audience the wonders of Nigg and area as a place of great cultural and historical achievement.
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