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Oblique aerial view of Craignethan Castle.
SC 1546505
Description Oblique aerial view of Craignethan Castle.
Date 1970
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number SC 1546505
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of LA 3593 CN
Scope and Content Aerial view of Craignethan Castle, South Lanarkshire This aerial view, taken from the west in 1995, shows the outer courtyard in the foreground, with the dry ditch separating it from the inner courtyard in front of the tower. On the left side of the ditch was a massive defensive wall, and in the ditch are structures from which flanking fire could be directed against attackers. During the 1960s a major programme of consolidation and excavation at Craignethan Castle revealed that the defences, as seen here, had been on a scale unmatched in 16th-century Scotland. Excavation and consolidation continued in the 1970s and 1980s, with the castle now open to the public and in the care of Historic Scotland. Craignethan Castle was built in the 1530s by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, as an artillery fortification, on a promontory surrounded on three sides by the River Nethan. It was taken in 1579 by forces of the Regent Moray, and the defences slighted. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 5848/CN/9
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