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Identifier: castellateddomes03macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
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Fio. 58.—Achincass Castle. Plan. The Earls of Morton were long proprietors of Achincass, but no eventsare recorded regarding its history. HOME CASTLE, Berwickshire. This ancient seat of the powerful family of Home stands about fiveand a half miles north from Kelso, on a rocky height about 700 feetabove the sea, whence it commands an extensive prospect over the valleyof the Tweed, and the level country of the Merse as far as Berwick,This castle is of very early foundation, and formed for centuries one of HOME CASTLE — 107 — FIRST PERIOD
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FIRST PERIOD 108 HOME CASTLE the chief bulwarks of the Borders. It is now, unfortunately, only amodernised ruin, the existing walls having been erected on the oldfoundations by the last Earl of Marchmont about the end of theeighteenth century, at which time the castle had been almost entirelydemolished. The view (Fig, 59) of the existing structure thereforegives no accurate idea of the appearance of the ancient castle, butsimply shows the nature of the site and extent of the fortress, whichis more fully explained by the Plan (Fig. 60). It has evidently been acastle of the First Period, forming an irregular square about 130 feetacross, and surrounded with a lofty enclosing wall about 6 feet inthickness. On the north-west side the wall rises above a precipice andis sufficiently well protected by nature; but on the other three sidesthe ground slopes away more gradually. Flanking works and towers
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