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Stirling Royal Gardens, including the King's Knot, is a scheduled monument comprising the designed landscape that once adjoined Stirling Castle in Stirlingshire. The King's Knot itself is a distinctive earthwork of roughly star-shaped plan, situated on the flat ground below the castle, and represents a formal garden feature of Renaissance design dating to the sixteenth century, with evidence suggesting development under the Stewart dynasty. The gardens formed part of the royal pleasure grounds associated with one of Scotland's most important royal residences, reflecting the sophisticated courtly tastes and landscape management practices of early modern Scotland. The site retains significant archaeological potential despite later land use, and the surviving earthworks continue to illustrate the scale and ambition of royal garden design in this period.
Stirling, Royal Gardens including King's Knot is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90288. View the official record →
Stirling Royal Gardens, including the King's Knot, is a scheduled monument comprising the designed landscape that once adjoined Stirling Castle in Stirlingshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90288.
Stirling, Royal Gardens including King's Knot is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM90288.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Common Hill,homestead (6.4 km), Plean Cottages,palisaded enclosure 350m SSE of (7.1 km), Plean Farm,ring ditch 800m SE of (7.5 km).
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