Old Photographs Cardoness Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cardoness Castle located South West of Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. By 1628 Cardoness belonged to John Gordon Clan Gordon, head of a family with whom the McCullochs had long feuded. In 1690 Sir Godfrey McCulloch shot dead John Gordon's son, William Gordon. Sir Godfrey escaped to France, but was spotted in Edinburgh in 1697 and beheaded on the Maiden, the Scottish equivalent of the guillotine.

Old photograph of Cardoness Castle located South West of Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Old photograph of Cardoness Castle located South West of Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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