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Photos from Argyll and Bute
Including – Oban, Kilchurn Castle, Dunstaffnage Castle and Inveraray Castle

Photos from the Highlands
Including Eilean Donan Castle, Glefinnan and Glenfinnan viaduct

Photos From Doune Castle

and Eventually long shot photos from Edinburgh Christmas 2018

  • Doune Castle
    Doune Castle
  • Kilchurn Castle Dalmeny
    Kilchurn Castle Dalmeny
  • Edinburgh Christmas 2018 Mound Tree
    Edinburgh Christmas 2018 Mound Tree
  • Eilean Donan castle
    Eilean Donan castle

Panoramic – Bannockburn Battlefield

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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

Bannockburn Battlefield

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led;
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victory!
 
Now’s the day, and now’s the hour;
See the front o’ battle lour;
See approach proud Edward’s power—
Chains and slavery!
 
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave!
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
 
Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa’,
Let him follow me!
 
By oppression’s woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
 
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!—
Let us do or die!
 
The wikipedia page has English and Scottish Gaelic translation