Blackness Castle, on a very dreich and snowy Scottish day. A 15th-century castle looks apparently like a ‘ship that never sailed’… Closed today, I wonder why! 
thwarted by the weather – pffft!!!
Blackness Castle
Probably the best of the bunch – I’ll upload a few more photos soon…
Panoramic – Bannockburn Battlefield
we can see the Rotunda and flagpole and the Statue of Robert The Bruce – all commemorating the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. When Robert Burns visited the site in 1793 he pend the poem ‘Scots Wha Hae’
Bannockburn Battlefield
Panoramic (not a great one) of Huntly Castle,
Huntly Castle is a ruined castle in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was the ancestral home of the chief of Clan Gordon
Huntly Castle
Panoramic photo of Ruthven Barracks, near Ruthven in Badenoch, Scotland, are the smallest but best preserved of the four barracks built in 1719 after the 1715 Jacobite rising.
Ruthven Barracks
However there has been a fortified structure on this hilltop site in 1229.
Panoramic of Culloden Battlefield
Panoramic of Culloden Battlefield
Fought on the 6 April 1746 near Inverness, the Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
A panoramic photo of the 18th century Fort George, near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands
Panoramic – Fort George
Another Iconic Scottish castle, the Beautiful Urquhart Castle located on the shores of Loch Ness
near Inverness.
Panoramic – Urquhart Castle
More photos of Urquhart Castle and other historic sites on the Highlands 2017 album link
The Iconic Dunnottar Castle
an Iconic ruined medieval castle Near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Panoramic shot of Dunnottar Castle
More photos of Dunnottar Castle and other historic sites on the Highlands 2017 album link
25 Photos from Linlithgow palace have been added – Linlithgow palace
Taken April 2017
The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles west of Edinburgh. The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries.
This wee place is found within the mountains within Glencoe, Scotland – It’s called the Achnambeithach Cottage, truly is the middle of nowhere, it would appear only sheep for company.
Laganbargh Hut
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