Forteviot, Scotland

Forteviot, a village in Perthshire, situated on the Water of May, a right-hand affluent of the Earn. It is a place of remote antiquity, having been a capital of the Picts, when the district was known as Fortrenn, and afterwards of the Scots. The army led by Edward Baliol camped here before the battle of Dupplin (1332), in which the regent, Donald, earl of Mar, was slain along with 13,000 out of 30,000 men.

The parish of Findo-Gask adjoining it on the North West. contains remains of a Roman road, station and outpost, besides the auld hoose of Gask in which the Baroness Nairne was born, and which forms the theme of one of her most popular songs. The new house in which she died dates from 1801.

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