A trip to the borderlands
Fantastic weather today, and a grand drive through the Southern Uplands. Our destination was Castle Caerlaverock.
Home to the Maxwells, and extremely close to the "Anglish" border, this was one of the most contested Castles in Scotland's history.
Considered the oldest, it stood 100s of years of attack. Until siege weaponry came around - the Trebuchet in particular - no one sacked this Castle. 
But, the Trebuchet won the day, and the Castle was sacked and ruined.
The ruins still tell the beautiful story. Shaped like a shield, with a double-defensive tower for entry and two additional corner towers, and a moat coupled with the lay of the land - Irish Sea on two sides, a marsh on the 3rd, and one line of approach; quite the defensible site.
2 comments:
Yes, you guys are rock stars! Looks magnificent and i know you are having fun! Hope you got to meet up with the B&J in hampsterdam! love the pictures and the theivery quote!! miss ya
yes oh yes...stunning scenery...makes me wanna shine up my spats, tune my 'pipes, take up residence in one of those box o' rocks, and force feed various farm animals until their innards explode with offal deeeelishusness!!!!!
though craggy welsh blood pulses through my veins, i'm a scottish girl at heart....a girl who desparately needs to get her head together in, say, maybe another week or so.....
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