Kincardine Castle (2)
Sunny though it was on the day I was here, what these photos can not show is that there was a howling gale blowing. My usually imperturbable wife was flying up to Aberdeen to meet me later in the day, and after two attempts at landing in Aberdeen, during which she broke finger nails clutching her seat armrest in a valiant effort to help steady the aircraft, they gave up and went to Edinburgh instead! Here in the beech wood, the noise was terrific and my explorations not without hazard, as branches periodically came spinning down from above.
It is believed that this has been a royal site since the time of the Picts (a name given them by the Romans and taken to mean "painted or tattooed people", the same root word as “picture”.) A Roman army under Agricola defeated the Caledonian army under Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius somewhere nearby in AD 83 or 4.
Kincardine Castle (2)
Sunny though it was on the day I was here, what these photos can not show is that there was a howling gale blowing. My usually imperturbable wife was flying up to Aberdeen to meet me later in the day, and after two attempts at landing in Aberdeen, during which she broke finger nails clutching her seat armrest in a valiant effort to help steady the aircraft, they gave up and went to Edinburgh instead! Here in the beech wood, the noise was terrific and my explorations not without hazard, as branches periodically came spinning down from above.
It is believed that this has been a royal site since the time of the Picts (a name given them by the Romans and taken to mean "painted or tattooed people", the same root word as “picture”.) A Roman army under Agricola defeated the Caledonian army under Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius somewhere nearby in AD 83 or 4.