The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · London, Published by the author · leaf 148
nd disposed of for building dykes. Not one stone would have been left on another tomark the spot, had not the trustee on the estate, a gentleman of antiquarian tastes and attainments,interdicted the spoliation, and caused the east gable, that narrowly escaped destruction, to bepropped by a buttress… … CAERLAVEROC CASTLE. The Scottish reiver, or free-booter, usually perched his stronghold on the top of an isolated rockor by the edge of a ravine; and he derived so much security from these natural peculiarities, thatthey came to be considered indispensable to a real fortress. It must have been…
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