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 130
s of Morton were long proprietors of Achincass, but no eventsare recorded regarding its history. HOME CASTLE, Berwickshire. This ancient seat of the powerful family of Home stands about fiveand a half miles north from Kelso, on a rocky height about 700 feetabove the sea, whence it commands an… … FIRST PERIOD 108 HOME CASTLE the chief bulwarks of the Borders. It is now, unfortunately, only amodernised ruin, the existing walls having been erected on the oldfoundations by the last Earl of Marchmont about the end of theeighteenth century, at which time the castle had been almost…
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