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castles: A fortified defensive building or structure. Strictly speaking, a castle was also a home, whereas a fort was purely defensive, but I have used castle for any fortified place. A castle may also have had a dungeon or donjon, a sort of prison for offenders and captured soldiers.
Synonyms: fort, keep, garrison

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Newark Tower The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

(Frontispiece) Newark Tower

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Keywords: castles, trees, water, sunsets, towers, colour

Places shown: Newark; Fife; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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Smailholm Tower The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

According to Discover the Borders, “This is a well preserved and well restored border tower house dating from the 15th century. Situated on Sandyknowe Farm, it is visible for miles around. Formerly th [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water

Places shown: Sandyknowe; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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1273.—Present State of Borthwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Bortwick castle was built in the 1430s; it is inhabited (now as a hotel) and is in good condition, despite the grass growing on the battlements in this 1840s engraving. It capitulated to Cromwell in 1 [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, decay, greyscale

Places shown: Borthwick; Midlothian; Scotland

Added: 2010-05-29

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Roxburgh Castle The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

Says Discover the Borders, “The ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh, favourite of Scottish kings, seated on its massive grassy mound between the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.”

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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Branxholm Tower The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

“It was from Branxholm, on the Teviot above Hawick, that another Scott of the name – generation after generation were Walters – rode forth to rescue ‘Kinmount Willie’ from prison in Carlisle. The Min [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water, trees

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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Glamis Castle. William Shakspere: A Biography (1841)

The Dunsinane Hills form a long range extending in a north-easterly direction from Perth to Glamis. The castle of the “thane of Glamis” has been made a traditionary scene of the murder of Duncan [in M [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, people, horses, soldiers, shakespeare, greyscale

Places shown: Glamis; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2010-11-16

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Neidpath Castle The Scott Country (Geddie and Haslehust) (1920)

“A mile out of [Peebles], to the west, is Neidpath Castle, the most commandingly and romantically situated, and, in spite of the yawning gaps made in its walls by Cromwell’s cannon, the best-preserve [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, rivers, water, colour

Places shown: Neidpath; Tweeddale; Scotland

Added: 2005-03-17

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