Dunnottar is in my top 5 castles, it’s magical at sunrise
The history given here is incorrect. It was fortified as a hillfort long, long before it was a castle, since at least the early Iron Age. Constantine II of Scotland was besieged here by Athelstan of Wessex in 934AD.
It was also not built in 1400 as OP claims – there was already a castle here in 1297 when Wallace allegedly sacked it and burnt the garrison alive in the chapel. It developed continuously from then until the mid-17th century when Monck’s canons made a ruin of it.
I grew up in Stoney. I love this castle and the shores and cliff walks around it.
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Looks awfy like Dunnottar.
Dunnottar is in my top 5 castles, it’s magical at sunrise
The history given here is incorrect. It was fortified as a hillfort long, long before it was a castle, since at least the early Iron Age. Constantine II of Scotland was besieged here by Athelstan of Wessex in 934AD.
It was also not built in 1400 as OP claims – there was already a castle here in 1297 when Wallace allegedly sacked it and burnt the garrison alive in the chapel. It developed continuously from then until the mid-17th century when Monck’s canons made a ruin of it.
I grew up in Stoney. I love this castle and the shores and cliff walks around it.
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