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Dunachton ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Dùn Neachdain)) is an estate on the north-west shore of Loch Insh in Badenoch and Strathspey, in the Highlands of Scotland. It occupies land immediately to the north of the A9 road and General Wade's Military Road. Recent research has suggested Dunachton as a potential location for the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 in which the Picts permanently secured independence from the Northumbrians. ==History== The area around Dunachton shows evidence of human occupation in prehistory, with flintwork and whetstones being found in the vicinity.〔Wordsworth and Harden〕 The name Dunachton derives from ''Dun Neachdain'' the fort of Nechtan. Nechtan's identity is unknown, but it is likely he was one of several of the early Pictish Kings that went by that name.〔Seton p200〕 Dunachton had some importance in the Early Medieval period. It is the site of an early class I Pictish stone which was discovered in 1870, having been recycled as a lintel stone in a farmstead building. Dunachton is first documented as 'Dwnachtan' in 1381,〔Registrum episcopatus Moraviensis p93; p188〕 in reference to the 'capelle de Nachtan', the Chapel of Nechtan,〔Registrum episcopatus Moraviensis p93; p184〕 which was dedicated to St Drostan. Recent research has pointed to the possibility that Dunachton may have been the correct site of the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685, when Bridei mac Bille, king of the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu defeated Ecgfrith of Northumbria, securing Pictish independence from Northumbria. The battle site was previously thought to be somewhere in the vicinity of Dunnichen in Angus, but reappraisal of the scant documentary evidence along with the reappraisal of Fortriu as being north of the Grampian Mountains has led to the suggestion that Dunachton is the true location.〔Woolf〕 Dunachton Lodge was built on the remains of Dunachton Castle.〔Canmore Record: Dunachton Lodge〕 The landowners were originally the MacNivens, who as a sept of the MacNaughtons, claim descent from Nechtan. The barony subsequently came into possession of the Clan Mackintosh in the early 16th century through the marriage of Isabel MacNiven, the heiress of the Barony of Dunachton to William Mackintosh, cousin of the chief of the clan Mackintosh, and later chief of Clan Mackintosh and the wider Chattan Confederation.〔Shaw p77; Seton p201; Adam and Innes p163〕 A centuries old feud between the Mackintoshes and Clan MacDonald of Keppoch came to a head in 1688 at the Battle of Maol Ruadh. Dunachton Castle was destroyed the following year by Coll MacDonald under the auspices of the Jacobite cause, provoking a public rebuke from Dundee.〔Roberts p180〕 It was never rebuilt.〔Shaw p77〕 Dunachton was bought in the 1950s by Andrew Forbes-Leith, who later inherited the baronetcy of Fyvie. In the 1970s he turned of Dunachton into the Highland Wildlife Park.〔Andrew Forbes Leith obituary〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dunachton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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