Dunkeld Cathedral. Dunkeld, Perthshire. Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dunkeld in Gaelic means ‘fort of the Caledonians’ and there’s been an important settlement here for over two thousand years. Recent excavations of a nearby Hill Fort above the town show that between 400AD and 900AD it was almost certainly a royal site of great importance with fragments of imported glass and pottery from Europe and on-site metal working. The first church was built at Dunkeld in the 6th or 7th century as pagan Scotlan