Liberton Tower, Edinburgh (Scotland) 'Home away' image and a more defensive reconstruction suggestion with battlement hoarding for pouring liquids and a wooden Barmkin palisade to keep out unwelcome visitors. #LibertonTower#ScottishCastles#HistoryRebuilt
Tantallon Castle @welovehistory image & reconstruction. Castle had several outer ditches to delay besieging forces. A V-shaped Ravelin cannon platform was added in 1500s. It may have copied elements from English earth & timber fort at Haddington as it had Ravelin like corners
Borthwick Castle reconstruction. Nigel Tranter told me Mary Queen of Scots was trapped here when the Earl of Bothwell ran away leaving her to face rebel Lords besieging the Castle for Bothwell's blood. Mary dressed as a boy (Page) climbed down the wall & escaped thru enemy lines.
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Luffness Friary @CJMorrison65 image & mock-up. In 1388 the armour bearer to James Douglas, John Bickerton hid here on 'holy ground'. He allegedly stabbed his Master in the back at Otterburn. Ramsay of Waughton waited for Bickerton to leave on 'Bickerton's Walk' & stabbed him.
Bothwell Castle near Glasgow (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over @UndisScot image. Castle damaged/slighted during the Scottish Wars of Independence. Site repaired by Archibald 'The Grim', illegitimate Son of the Black Douglas. #BothwellCastle#ScottishCastles#HistoryRebuilt
Dunnideer Castle, Insch, Aberdeenshire (Scotland) Zamki-Szocji.com image & reconstruction of Tower with Barmkin. Built on top of an Iron Age Hillfort with earlier lower hill ditches likely being reused as an outerline of defence. #DunnideerCastle#ScottishCastles
Lochleven Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over @CJMorrison65 image. An island stronghold of the Douglas family. Site famous as prison of Mary Queen of Scots in 1567-68. She escaped to Niddry Castle. #LochlevenCastle#ScottishCastles#HistoryRebuilt