View from South-East. Digital image of LA 545

Description View from South-East. Digital image of LA 545

Collection Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 798392

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of LA 545

Scope and Content Bothwell Castle, Castle Avenue, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, from south-south-east This view, taken in about 1950 from the south-south-east, shows the south-east Douglas Tower, built in the early 15th century, with the south curtain wall to the left. The lower part of this wall was built at the same time as the tower, and the upper part in the 16th century. Note the rock below the walls, cut away to improve defence. The western half of the great tower, or 'donjon' was demolished after 1337, following English occupation in 1336-7. Most of what survives dates from the late 14th and early 15th centuries. The castle remained a residence until the late 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.

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