Colchester Castle Keep, Essex (England) reconstruction mock-up. #ColchesterCastle #NormanKeep #EnglishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Hailes Castle, East Lothian (Scotland), reconstruction mock-up. A Hepburn family stronghold besieged by Harry Hotspur Percy and Lord Dunbar in 1400. #HailesCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Yoros Castle is a Byzantine ruined castle at the confluence of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea in Istanbul, Turkey. 'romebyzantium' info/image turned into a House of Dragon style of mock-up Gif. #YorosCastle #HistoryRebuilt

Newcastle Keep (England) Barmkin, courtyard wall, reconstruction mock-up over 'Kyle Spratt' image. #Newcastle #EnglishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Ardvreck Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up with barmkin over @undisscot.bsky.social image. In 1650 James Marquis of Montrose was captured & held at Ardvreck before being transported to Edinburgh to be hung, drawn & quartered for supporting King Charles. #ArdvreckCastle #HistoryRebuilt

Bass Rock Isle in Firth of Forth (Scotland) Canmore image and overlap of my old watercolour reconstruction suggestion of Lauder family stronghold. #BassRockCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt #watercolourpainting

The two drum towers that once flanked Southampton Castle’s gate. They were added to the royal castle’s 13th century bailey wall in the 14th century. @historicalsoton.bsky.social info/image & reconstruction mock-up. #SouthamptonCastle #EnglishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Hermitage Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up with defensive hoarding over @undisscot.bsky.social image. Alexander Ramsay (the hero of the siege of Dunbar & storming of Roxburgh) was starved to death here by his Friend William Douglas. #HermitageCastle #HistoryRebuilt #ScottishCastles

Berwick Law & 'Castle Hill' North Berwick, East Bay, East Lothian (Scotland), reconstruction mock-up of the Lauder family Keep with Barmkin built on the site of an earlier Castle slighted by the Black Douglas.#CastleHill #NorthBerwick #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt #BerwickLaw

Dundarg Castle, Aberdeenshire (Scotland) Zamki-Szocji.com
image & reconstruction of gatehouse from 2019. Tower and Hall are hidden from view at this angle. #DundargCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness (Scotland) overlap of my watercolour reconstruction from 1988. Site seized by the MacDonald family in 1452 to annoy King James II of Scots in his War with the Black Douglases. #UrquhartCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Kamianets Podiliskyi Castle, Western Ukraine 'CastlesGHQ'
image & battlement reconstruction with stronger defensive gatehouse suggestion from 2019. #HistoryRebuilt

Portencross Castle in North Ayrshire (Scotland) @undisscot.bsky.social image & reconstruction mock-up. A Boyd family stronghold. #PortencrossCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Gight Castle, Aberdeenshire (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up of L-Plan Keep with lean-to buildings. A Gordon family stronghold. Also ancestral home of the famous poet Lord Byron. #GightCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Stirling Castle (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up of earlier four towered gatehouse and defensive hoarding suggestion. #StirlingCastle #HistoryRebuilt #ScottishCastles

Greenan Castle, Ayrshire (Scotland) 'TheCastleGuy' image & reconstruction mock-up from 2019. A Kennedy family stronghold. King James IV of Scots gave Greenan to the Son of the Red Douglas of Tantallon Castle in 1493. #GreenanCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Dun Telve Broch near Glenelg (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over 'Educo_gratis' image. Outer stone wall ring appears to be missing or stolen by later quarrying. So put a palisade round it as it can't be left unprotected. #ScottishBrochs #HistoryRebuilt

Rhuddlan Castle, Denbigshire (Wales) reconstruction mock-up over 'cadw' image. Site besieged by Owain Glyndwr 'Prince of Wales' in 1400. #RhuddlanCastle #WelshCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Duntulm Castle, Isle of Skye (Scotland) 'yesjimstheman'
image & reconstruction mock-up. A stronghold of the MacDonalds of Sleat. Likely built on the site of an earlier Broch. #DuntulmCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Tantallon Castle, East Lothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. Built by William 1st Earl of Douglas, he may have copied elements of Château Gaillard in his construction of Tantallon. #TantallonCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt