Caerlaverock Castle
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Tafari
N 54° 58.567 W 003° 31.412
30U E 466490 N 6092259
Sir Herbert Maxwell built Caerlaverock around 1277. In 1300 Edward I of England placed it under siege, with three thousand men. The garrison’s sixty men held out for two days. The castle suffered further attacks in 1312, 1356, 1545, 1570 and 1640 for thirteen weeks. After each siege, except the last, the castle was rebuilt
Waymark Code: WM584
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/25/2005
Views: 95
Surrounded by a double moat and hundreds of acres
of flat marshy willow woods (known in Scotland as a "moss"), Caerlaverock was
built to control the South-West entrance to Scotland which in early times was
the waterway across the Solway Firth.
Building began in about 1277, and by 1300 it was
besieged by Edward I during his war against the Scottish king John (Balliol), a
war still remembered for the brave resistance put up by the Scots under Sir
William Wallace. Its triangular plan is unique in Scotland, and during the siege
of 1300 it was noted as being
"so strong a castle that it feared no
siege... in shape it was like a shield for it has but three sides round it, with
a tower at each corner... And I think that you will never see a more finely
situated castle, for on one side can be seen the Irish Sea, towards the west and
to the north the fair moorland, surrounded by an arm of the sea, so that no
creature born can approach it on two sides without putting himself in danger of
the sea. On the south side it is not easy, for there are many places difficult
to get through because of woods and marshes and ditches hollowed out by the sea
where it meets the river."
More Information about the Maxwell's you can find
here.
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Ras Tafari