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Post #AvxJVW8IEoZSat6Qt6 by [email protected] |
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Today I visited Drum Castle, via the same bus route which took me to Crathes Ca… |
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Post #AvxJVWG5looEz4kf2m by [email protected] |
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Drum castle lies within what was once a royal forest/park and the lands were gr… |
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Post #AvxJVWMpMmCHJxu2Xg by [email protected] |
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Clan Irvine has adopted the prickly holly leaf as it's symbol ever since an… |
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Post #AvxJVWTYxjaJer3Q2a by [email protected] |
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The oldest part of Drum castle is a tower which has a decent claim to being one… |
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Post #AvxJVWaIYgyLzkCnXU by [email protected] |
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It also has some design marks and qualities which suggests the designer may hav… |
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Post #AvxJVWh29eMOKdMB2O by [email protected] |
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Here are some pictures of the Old Tower of Drum (as it is called) and how it si… |
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Post #AvxJVWn3nFBGdKAzQm by [email protected] |
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There was probably at least a Barmkin wall and other structures associated with… |
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Post #AvxJVWt5Qq08w0znpA by [email protected] |
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Their conflicts with the Keiths resulted in the Battle of Drumoak in 1402, in w… |
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Post #AvxJVWz74Qp1EhocDY by [email protected] |
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The 3rd Lord Irvine of Drum's martial exploits were so famous that the next… |
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Post #AvxJVX5qfOD3ZaxziS by [email protected] |
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By the 1600's, though, life was good and a little less conflict prone, so t… |
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Post #AvxJVXCEHfJVtNx5f6 by [email protected] |
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The Irvines backed the royalists during the War of the Three Kingdoms period, w… |
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Post #AvxJVXIFvG8OC4lu3U by [email protected] |
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The castle doesn't appear to have been damaged too heavily during these eve… |
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Post #AvxJVXOHYqxGUlaiRs by [email protected] |
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The castle appears to have been ransacked again, this time by royalists under t… |
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Post #AvxJVXV19oLIpek5wm by [email protected] |
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During the Jacobite period, they stood consistently with the Jacobites (on the … |
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Post #AvxJVXbOm5Rl9RjBtQ by [email protected] |
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The interiors are mostly of the Victorian era and remained so right up until th… |
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Post #AvxJVXhmOMYDTEiHq4 by [email protected] |
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My main interest in visiting Drum was the Old Tower. Unfortunately you don'… |
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Post #AvxJVXoA0defn1hNmi by [email protected] |
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The tower has three primary chambers inside it, all of which are stone vaulted.… |
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Post #AvxJVXuXcul86ogTjM by [email protected] |
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The secret chambers were rediscovered behind blocked up windows, during conserv… |
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Post #AvxJVY1HDs9ARhprEG by [email protected] |
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There is a storage area beneath the library and an even larger hall above it, b… |
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Post #AvxJVY6wsmgSjIUO4O by [email protected] |
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To access the other spaces, there is a external stair connected to the tower wh… |
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Post #AvxJVYCcXhDl0t8uuW by [email protected] |
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The upper hall is strongly peaked, like the Brig o' Balgownie, designed by … |
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Post #AvxJVYJi7KtNMsSZxg by [email protected] |
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His design is not without it's faults. All the tower's windows are extr… |
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Post #AvxJVYQ5jbzpgfRfuK by [email protected] |
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Also, the guy provided a privy on the battlements level without providing a chu… |
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Post #AvxJVYVlOWX7yG6CkS by [email protected] |
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The White Tower of the Tower of London had similar issues and solved them in si… |
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Post #AvxJVYbR3R4QFqkjaa by [email protected] |
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They did get around to fixing that problem with the White Tower eventually, but… |
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Post #AvxJVYhofiAsZdjpXE by [email protected] |
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Random castle bits time. Here is the chapel right outside the Jacobean wing. It… |
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Post #AvxJVYouFLqUvd3UaO by [email protected] |
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There is a burial yard behind the chapel. I think this is the most recent Laird… |
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Post #AvxJVYuvswfNEJsIym by [email protected] |
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I just had to ask the guide and he said the NT gave back a patch of the land to… |
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Post #AvxJVZ21SaKzaJBy1w by [email protected] |
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@Infoseepage 这是在哪里呀？哪个国家的哪个城市？ |
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Post #AvxJVZ7L8oahqngDJo by [email protected] |
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@Navysilk 国家是Scotland(苏格兰), 省份是Aberdeenshire, 村庄是Drumoak |
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Post #AvxJVZCIqMYq6C0B3R by [email protected] |
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Before I get too off track from the graveyard, did I mention they have a pet ce… |
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Post #AvxJVZUNl91T0GScEa by [email protected] |
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Back to random castle bits. So, the Victorians added onto the Jacobean wing a b… |
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Post #AvxJVZnAdI3FwXFcWG by [email protected] |
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There is this Yett, which would have been the original servant's entrance, … |
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Post #AvxJVa5FY4Vsqbi3hQ by [email protected] |
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These windows would have been on the outside of the Jacobean castle, now they&#… |
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Post #AvxJVaQsFfoJvfpKPA by [email protected] |
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Drum has a nice walled garden. I liked the one at Crathes and Edzell better. |
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Post #AvxJVajf7oq6rwcKgq by [email protected] |
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Some historic depictions of Drum Castle found at the castle. Some were simply i… |
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Post #AvxMDBNGyi52rZ3fvM by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea 天呢，你居然特意换成中文和我说话～谢谢你！哈�… |
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Post #AvxMDBSwdccL99iClU by [email protected] |
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@Navysilk 我是西方的人，不过，我现在学中文，所以我看到了… |
