Aboyne Highland Games 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Kildrummy Castle
Kildrummy Castle is a ruined castle near Kildrummy, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Though ruined, it is one of the most extensive castles of 12th century date to survive in eastern Scotland, and was the seat of the Earls of Ma
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Dunnottar Castle
Dunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a precipitous rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles (3 km) south of Stonehaven. Its surviving buildings are largely of the 15th-16th centuries, but an important fortress certainly existed on this site from Dark Age times. Dunnottar played an important role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, due to its strategic location overlooking the shipping lanes to northern Scotland and also being situated on a fairly narrow coastal terrace that controlled land movements, particularly the land access to the ancient Causey Mounth, the only medieval route from the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen
Saturday, September 5, 2009
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