View showing top of Donjon from South-West. Digital image of LA 622/25

Description View showing top of Donjon from South-West. Digital image of LA 622/25

Date 18/8/1941

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 798235

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of LA 622/25

Scope and Content Bothwell Castle, Castle Avenue, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, from west This view, taken in 1941 from the west, shows the upper part of the 'donjon', the great keep of the castle, originally cylindrical, but partly demolished, probably after 1337. The slots in the masonry were probably for the ribs of a timber vault supporting the floor of the second-floor hall. Note the enormous thickness of the walls. The castle was held by the English in 1336-7. After the Scots recaptured it the donjon was partly demolished, as seen here. The rest of the castle was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries. It remained a house until the 17th century, but has been in State care since 1935. Now in the care of Historic Scotland, it is open to the public. Bothwell Castle seems to have been built in the third quarter of the 13th century, probably by Walter de Moravia. It was not complete when it was besieged in 1289-90, and again in 1301, when Edward I's forces took it, and held it until 1314, when it was surrendered to Robert the Bruce. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Emergency Survey

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