Dunsinnan Hill

Also known as:
Dunsinane Hill and Macbeth's Castle
Nearest town:
Coupar Angus (8km N)
OS reference:
NO213316
OS sheet:
53
Latitude:
56° 28' 11.66 N
Longitude:
3° 16' 39.28 W
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Dunsinnan Hill
Hillfort
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 16, 2023

On Dunsinane Hill between Perth and Dundee, Macbeth is supposed to have hidden a kettle full of gold when fleeing from his castle. It is predicted that the finder will be a woman with auburn hair, the seventh child of a seventh child.

For those eligible, the following clue has been handed down – “When the sun shines on Milnton Wheel, it shines on the lid of the kettle.” The “Milnton” is presumably Milton, two miles north-west of the hill.

In the Dundee Evening Telegraph, 4th January 1950.

Folklore

Dunsinnan Hill
Hillfort
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Oct 14, 2006

Leslie Grinsell reported from Hogg’s 1975 ‘Hillforts of Britain’, that:
“Within the Early Iron Age defences are the foundations of an early medieval castle which could well have belonged to Macbeth.”

‘Could well have belonged’ eh.
Notes on the Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain
L. V. Grinsell
Folklore, Vol. 90, No. 1. (1979), pp. 66-70.

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