Castles, Tower Houses and Gardens

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Dunstaffnage Caste, Argyll. Built C11 by Mcdougalls, Lords of Lorne. Pre-Norman.

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Castle Sween, west coast of Argyll, C11-14. Built by Suibhne, son of Hugh Anrahnan, Brother of king of Ulster

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Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, early C12 - Norman Castle

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Castle Tioram, early 1200s, Highlands. Stronghold of Lords of Isles. Pre-Norman

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Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, 1354

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Rothesay Castle, Isle of Bute, Early Norman 1204-1246. Possibly on site of earlier celtic era fortification. Built by Alan Fitz Walter, Steward of Scotland

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Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire. Mid 1200s for Walter of Moravia, Early Norman

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Duffus Castle, Moray C11, Early Norman Period. built by a Flemish Knight named Freskin. Example of a motte-and-bailey; extensive outer bailey with a moat, then a walled inner bailey surrounding a large timber motte

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Bass of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, mid 12th century. Possibly built by Norman knight, Badolf de Lesselyn. Example of motte-and-bailey - early Norman period

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Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire. French Chateau type - Stronghold of the Maxwell Family - C13-17

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Doune Castle, Strilingshire, acquired by Robert Steward, 1st Duke of Albany (c.1340-1420)

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Ravenscraig Castle, Kirkaldym Fife, c.1460, completed by James III. Master mason was Henry Merlioun. Example of an artillery castle - L plan

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Craigmiller Castle, Edinburgh, c14th with later additions. Built by Preston family of Craigmiller

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Craignethan Castle, South Lanarkshire 1530s. Home of James Hamilton Finnart, Kings Master of Works, given to him by his father, the 1st Earl of Arran

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Edinburgh Castle; site of the ‘great hall’ of a chieftan called Eydin, 637. Later reperations made to the Portcullis Gate and Curtain Wall in 1573-1610

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Great Hall for James IV, c.1503, restored 1888. Original open hammer-beam timber roof with carved stone corbels

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Borthwick Castle, Midlothian, 1430. Example of a Tower House - for Sir William Borthwick

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Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire 1323; early Tower Castle, for chief of Clan Irvine

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Balvaird Castle, Perthshire, c.1495; Tower House for Sir Andrew Murray. Cap-house above the stair in the form of miniature tower-house

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Crichton Castle, Midlothian - late C14th, 2 towers added in C15. Example of Tower House

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Cairnbulg Castle, Aberdeenshire. C13-14. Originally a large square tower house. Destroyed during Wars of Independence 1308-1309, re-built in 1380 by Earl of Ross. Round tower C16

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Claypotts Castle, Dundee. 1568-88. Example of later tower-houses. Plan is Z-plan

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Huntly Castle, Aberdeenshire. Example of late tower house. Refurbished by 6th Earl to celebrate becoming the 1st Marquis of Huntly in 1599. High oriel windows with celebratory inscriptions

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Earl’s Palace, Orkney; for Patrick, Earl of Orkney, begun 1607. Example of later tower house

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Preston Tower, Prestonpans, East Lothian; possible C14, 2 storeys added 1626

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Craigievar, Aberdeenshire, 1626; later tower house, for John Forbes, Aberdeen merchant

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Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire, 1596

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