In 1701 this bar was described as being long after it was breached by the sea close its eastern edge. At this point what is now the Culbin Forest on the river's left bank was a sandy waste with dunes reaching to in height and the river channel through Findhorn Bay was slowly shallowing due to the wind-blown sands. Noticing the erosion to the bar, on which the village had been built, the inhabitants gradually deserted this site and moved to a new location about to the south east, where the modern village now stands. Iron Age settlement Dunearn (near Dulsie Bridge), Doune of Relugas, Dun Earn (by Conicavel) and Cluny Hill in Forres are all Iron Age hillforts. Doune of Relugas is at AOD and had a timber-laced rampart enclosing an area measuring by . Although downstream Dun Earn lies about higher than Doune of Relugas and encloses a larger area. Dunearn's enclosed area is roughly in extent. The existence of the hillfort at Cluny Hill, which extended to , was only confirmed in 2017. Rodney's Stone is a Pictish cross slab symbol stone in the grounds of Brodie Castle that was discovered in the Dyke churchyard in 1781. Medieval period Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres. It is the largest surviving Pictish stone of its type and stands at over high. Forres Castle stood on the east bank of the Mosset Burn. It may have been the place where King Dub was murdered in 966. Forres was a Royal Burgh from an unknown early date – the original charter having been lost and then renewed in 1496. Kinloss Abbey was founded in 1150 under the rule of the Cistercian order but only ruins now remain, Alexander Brodie of Lethen having reduced it for its stones in 1651. In 1303 Edward I of England stayed at Lochindorb castle for a month during his military occupation of Scotland. Originally built by the Comyns, the structure sat on an island in the loch. Perhaps the most notorious resident of the Findhorn valley was Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch, who was based at the castle and who burned Forres, Pluscarden Abbey and Elgin in 1390. In 1455 it was reduced by the Thane of Cawdor on the orders of James II and only the outer walls now remain. Modern era Various places