Old Photograph Cairnpapple Hill Scotland

Old photograph of Cairnpapple Hill located two miles North of Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. A Scottish hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site over about 4000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites like the Standing Stones of Stenness. Neolithic rituals began about 3500 BC with signs of small hearths, and precious objects left on the hill, presumably as offerings, including fine pottery bowls and stone axe heads imported from Cumbria and Wales.



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Old Photograph Ballatrich Scotland

Old photograph of Ballatrich or Ballaterach, a farm house in Glenmuick parish near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is the place where Lord Byron spent part of his boyhood. George Gordon Byron, born 22 January 1788, died 19 April 1824, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo Scottish poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem She Walks in Beauty. He was the son of Captain John Mad Jack Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon, a descendant of Cardinal Beaton and heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire. Byron received his early formal education at Aberdeen Grammar School.



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Old Photograph Aldbar Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Aldbar Castle located three mils South West of Brechin in Angus, Scotland. This castle, sometimes called Auldbar was a 16th century four-storey tower house, greatly extended in the baronial style during the 19th century, which was demolished in 1965. Originally the property of the Crammond family, it was sold to John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis in 1575. Subsequently the castle passed through the hands of the Sinclairs, Youngs and the Chalmers family, who were responsible for the extensions added in 1810.



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Old Photograph Auchen Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Auchen Castle near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The original Scottish castle here dates back to 1220, built by Sir Humphrey de Kirkpatrick when he was Senestal of Annandale. The Kirkpatrick family was a close ally of Robert the Bruce and King Robert would have been entertained at Auchen Castle often. The Kirkpatrick clan has long since moved from their seat at Auchen Castle and their estates and holdings came under the ownership of the Clan Johnstone. The Johnstone's remain Lords of Annandale to this day, and the castle as we know it today was largely completed in 1849 by General Johnstone. Through marriage, the castle then went on to Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle of the Youngers brewery family.



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Old Photograph Balnamoon House Scotland

Old photograph of Balnamoon House by Menmuir village located in Angus, Scotland. James Carnegy-Arbuthnott, Laird of Balnamoon, favoured the Jacobite cause and was known as the Rebel Laird. He was Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s Deputy-Lieutenant of Forfarshire and an officer in Lord Ogilvy’s Angus regiment. He survived the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and fled to Glen Esk where he was harboured by locals until he was betrayed by the local Presbyterian minister. Sent for trial in London, he was acquitted on a misnomer.



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