Dalhousie Castle (4)
The curtain wall, as far as we can tell, was fairly featureless, except for the gatehouse. There was a dry moat or fosse outside the curtain wall, and as I mentioned before, the vertical slots or 'rainures' in the wall above the door were for the drawbridge counter balance beams that supported the drawbridge that crossed it.
Inside the curtain, only the enormously thick walls and vaults of the ground floor survive from the old castle, which was built around 1450. Within the walls the old bottle-dungeon still survives, into which prisoners were lowered by rope - if they were lucky! The Drum tower which dates from the 15th century has a well at ground level which that once supplied the castle
Dalhousie Castle (4)
The curtain wall, as far as we can tell, was fairly featureless, except for the gatehouse. There was a dry moat or fosse outside the curtain wall, and as I mentioned before, the vertical slots or 'rainures' in the wall above the door were for the drawbridge counter balance beams that supported the drawbridge that crossed it.
Inside the curtain, only the enormously thick walls and vaults of the ground floor survive from the old castle, which was built around 1450. Within the walls the old bottle-dungeon still survives, into which prisoners were lowered by rope - if they were lucky! The Drum tower which dates from the 15th century has a well at ground level which that once supplied the castle