Caerlaverock Castle. Aerial view.

Description Caerlaverock Castle. Aerial view.

Date 1983

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number DF 5968

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 798379, SC 1670808

Scope and Content Aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries & Galloway This vertical aerial view, taken in 1983, shows Caerlaverock Castle set in its double moat. The bridge, which leads to the gatehouse, is approached from the north-north-east. To the left of the gatehouse is the 15th-century guest wing, and to the right are the Nithsdale Apartments. The south wing was demolished after 1640. 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.

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