Oblique aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle.

Description Oblique aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle.

Date 1972

Collection John Dewar

Catalogue Number SC 798377

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DF 3380 CN

Scope and Content Aerial view of Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries & Galloway This aerial view from the west, taken in 1972, shows the castle with its double moat, and the twin-towered gatehouse, built in stages from the 13th to the late 16th century. The site of the earlier castle is out of sight to the left. The south wing was dismantled after a siege in 1640, to make the castle indefensible. 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/H4

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