The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1901)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874, Burton, John Hill, 1809-1881 · Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd · leaf 156
on anotL■ ea and uowlv escaped dti and even p: -ui.t Elgin … 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…
