The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 308
bout l689. A view of the courtyard (Fig. 240) is given, fromwhich it is apparent that it has been somewhat modernised. The northside of this mansion overlooks a terrace on the top of the rock abovethe approach. The terrace (Fig. 241) is supported with large and massivebuttresses, which are partly… … ROSYTH CASTLE, Fifeshire. Rosyth Castle is situated on a low-lying, flat peninsula on the northmargin of the Firthof Forth, oppositeQueensferry, and issurrounded at hightides by water. Thepeninsula towards theFirth presents a rockyface a few feet abovethe water, graduallymerging into sandyshores as…
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