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Oblique aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle.
DF 3385 CN
Description Oblique aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle.
Date 1972
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number DF 3385 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 1804463
Scope and Content Aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries & Galloway This aerial view from the north-east, taken in 1972, shows the castle with its double moat. On the right is the gatehouse with a bridge on the site of the original drawbridge. Note the corbels (machicolations) round the wall-heads of the gatehouse and Murdoch's Tower, added in the late 15th century. Caerlaverock Castle is unique in Scotland in being laid out on a triangular plan. The distinctive gatehouse is substantially of the late 13th century. The west wing was rebuilt in the late 15th century as guest accommodation, and the east and south wings, known as the Nithsdale Apartments, date from about 1634. Caerlaverock Castle was a stronghold of the Maxwells, wardens of the West March (the western boundary between Scotland and England) in the later Middle Ages. The first castle here was built in the early 13th century, but was supplanted in the 1270s by the earliest part of the present building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 6377/CN/H9
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