Newmore Castle near Alness, Ross & Cromarty (Scotland) overlap of my old layout sketch and finished watercolour reconstruction. A Munro family stronghold. #NewmoreCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt #Watercolourpainting

Fidra Island, East Lothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up of first Castle of 'Dirleton' built on Island by the Anglo/Norman De-Vaux family around 1150. #FidraIsle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Lochranza Castle, Isle of Arran (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over @undisscot.bsky.social image. Site held by MacSween & Stewart families. King Robert The Bruce landed here in 1306 returning from Ireland to claim the Scots Throne. #LochranzaCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

St Andrews Cathedral, Fife (Scotland) 'Tracy Hogan' image and reconstruction mock-up #StAndrewsCathedral #ScottishChurches #HistoryRebuilt

Dirleton Castle, East Lothian (Scotland). Reconstruction mock-up of Ruthven gatehouse with Barmkin wall and Beehive Dovecote. #DirletonCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Drumnadrochit (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. Site seized by MacDonald family in 1452 to annoy King James II of Scots in his civil War with the Black Douglases & the Lindsay family. #UrquhartCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Gebrochen Gutenstein Castle (Germany) 'burgenruinen' image and reconstruction mock-up from 2018 based on drawing on information board on site. #GermanCastles #HistoryRebuilt

My layout sketch from 1987 of Dunbar Castle reconstruction watercolour over Canmore image used as a measurement template to rebuild level by level. #DunbarCastle #Watercolourpainting #HistoryRebuilt #ScottishCastles

Strathaven Castle (Scotland) my old watercolour reconstruction. Site burnt by King James II of Scots in 1455 during his civil War with the Black Douglas family. #Watercolourpainting #StrathavenCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Old Wick Castle, Caithness (Scotland) 'ellishjess' image & reconstruction. Site originally started by Harald Maddadson (who was half 'Viking' half Scot) #OldWickCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Exeter Castle gatehouse, Devon (England) 'THEcastleexpert' image & reconstruction mock-up. #ExeterCastle #HistoryRebuilt

Southampton Castle on motte (Southern England) rough reconstruction mock-up based on French spy map. (Used bits of Windsor Castle stonework to build keep) #SouthamptonCastle #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Niddry Castle, West Lothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up of L-Plan Keep & Barmkin wall. A Seton family stronghold. Mary Queen of Scots fled here after her escape from Lochleven Castle in 1568. #NiddryCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Lochleven Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. An island stronghold of the Douglas family. Site famous as prison of Mary Queen of Scots in 1567-68. She escaped to Niddry Castle. #LochlevenCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Reconstruction mock-up of Elgin Cathedral, (Scotland), known as the 'Lantern of the North'. #ElginCathedral #HistoryRebuilt

Dunure Castle, Ayrshire (Scotland) 'Andrew Guthrie' image & reconstruction mock-up. Keep was later harlwashed. This may have been to hide the bad lean-to join against the Keep. A Kennedy family stronghold. #DunureCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Luffness Castle, Aberlay (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up of earlier courtyard Castle, based on Nigel Tranter's 1980s survey. Luffness took its name from Lofda a 'Viking' buried under the West end tower of the site. #LuffnessCastle #HistoryRebuilt

Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, (Ireland) reconstruction mock-up. #DunluceCastle #IrishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Chepstow Castle's Norman Keep, Monmouthshire (Wales) reconstruction mock-up over @gunpowderdan.bsky.social image. Unusual rectangular Plan Keep started around 1067 with outer walls added strenthened in late 1200s. #ChepstowCastle #HistoryRebuilt

Reconstruction mock-up of Finlaggan on Eilean Mór, Islay, (Scotland). Stronghold of Clan Donald from the 1200s. #HistoryRebuilt #Finlaggan