Caerlaverock Castle. View from South.
SC 798381
Description Caerlaverock Castle. View from South.
Date c. 1910
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 798381
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DF 17
Scope and Content Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, from south-south-east This view from the south-south-east, taken in about 1910, shows the courtyard of the castle, looking through the site of the section of curtain wall destroyed after a siege in 1640, to make the castle indefensible. On the left is Murdoch's Tower, with the 15th-century west range beyond. On the right are the Nithsdale Apartments. 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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