Old travel Blog photograph of of the stairs to Dumbarton Castle which overlooks the town of Dumbarton, Scotland. This Scottish castle has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Great Britain. It is located on a plug of volcanic basalt known as Dumbarton Rock. At least as far back as the Iron Age, this has been the site of a strategically important settlement. Its early residents were known to have traded with the Romans. The presence of a settlement is first recorded in a letter Saint Patrick wrote to King Ceretic of Alt Clut in the late 5th century. Mary Queen of Scots sailed to France from here as a child in 1548.
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