By Stuart Reid
Apart from the major royal websites, comparable to Stirling and Edinburgh, few Scottish castles have been situated at strategic issues, or have been meant to accommodate garrisons required to protect or subjugate cities. as a substitute they have been essentially fortified living homes, erected in an atmosphere of susceptible Royal authority and endemic feuding among rival clans and teams, in either Highland and Lowland components. even supposing a few enceinte castles have been built in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, so much protecting development curious about the tower condo, a particular vernacular type of Scottish fortification. This ebook examines the layout, improvement, and goal of those quintessentially Scottish structures, and in addition covers higher websites comparable to Urquhart and Blackness.
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