Editing Fortrose (section)

== History ==
Archaeological investigations, by [[Headland Archaeology]], in 2013, as part of a planning condition for the creation of a housing development found domestic activity dating from the [[Neolithic British Isles|Neolithic]] to the [[Early Bronze Age]]. There was evidence of cereal production and the gathering of wild resources. The archaeologists also found that funerary practices change on the peninsula during that time from stone [[Cist|cist burials]] to [[Cremation|cremation burials]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vol 91 (2020): The Excavation of Neolithic Pits and a Bronze Age Burial Site at Ness Gap, Fortrose {{!}} Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports|url=http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/issue/view/303|access-date=2021-07-23|website=journals.socantscot.org}}</ref>

In the [[Middle Ages]] it was the seat of the bishopric of [[Ross, Scotland|Ross]], and formerly called ''Chanonry'', for being the Chanory of Ross.<ref name="McCulloch1847">{{cite book|author=John Ramsay McCulloch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA921|title=A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the Various Countries, Places, and Principal Natural Objects in the World: Illustrated with Maps|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1847|page=921|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>  Fortrose owes its origins to the decision by Bishop Robert in the 13th century to build a new Cathedral of Ross there. This was to replace the Church of St Peter in nearby [[Rosemarkie]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fortrose Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/fortrose/fortrose/index.html|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk}}</ref> The cathedral was largely demolished in the mid-seventeenth century by [[Oliver Cromwell]] to provide building materials for a citadel at [[Inverness]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJQeAQAAMAAJ|title=The Scots Magazine|publisher=D.C. Thomson|year=1956|page=155|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>  The vaulted south aisle, with bell-tower, and a detached chapter house (used as the tollbooth of Fortrose after the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]) remain.  These fragments, though modest in scale, display considerable architectural refinement, and are in the care of [[Historic Scotland]] (no entrance charge).

Fortrose was a [[Borough constituency|parliamentary burgh]], combined with [[Inverness]], [[Forres]] and [[Nairn]], in the [[Inverness Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness Burghs]] [[constituency]] of the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] from 1708 to 1801 and of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] from 1801 to 1918.  The constituency was abolished in 1918 and the Fortrose component was merged into the then new constituency of [[Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross and Cromarty]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2021|reason=Sections of this page have no citations and need them.}}