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 479
e, the chief place of the district, and on theopposite side of the Spey. The site is an alluvial mound of considerablesize standing detached from the rising ground which bounds the levelpart of the valley on the south side of the river. Being composed ofsand and gravel it would lend itself… … RUTHVEN CASTLE — 465 FOURTH PERIOD time of the Comyns, Lords of Badenoch, and was the chief fortress of theWolf of Badenoch during the fourteenth century. In the sixteenthcentury another castle was built on this site by George, sixth Earl ofHuntly. It was frequently besieged in the seventeenth…
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