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Wolf of Badenoch's Tomb with location of hinge for attaching a vented battle visor or a smooth unvented jousting visor. Both visors overlap/lock at the neck giving double thickness to throat area. As lance strikes cut thru mail aventails in this area in the past. #WolfOfBadenoch
Tony Curran plays Angus Og MacDonald in Netflix's Outlawking (2017) overlap on costume suggestion from Nigel Tranter's Bruce film project in 1991.
#Outlawking
Nesbit Moor 1355. Ramsay draws Lord Dacre & Lord Grey from Norham into a trap. John Halyburton killed in the Scots charge but English defeated with prisoners taken. A French knight bought some prisoners & killed them at 'Slaughter Hill' in revenge for his Father's death in France
In 1314 Roxburgh Castle captured by surprise by the Black Douglas & slighted by Scots to stop its use as an Auld enemy base. The Black Douglas escorted the Castle Governor to the Border for his own safety as locals wanted to kill him. #RoxburghCastle
@BillGra13034844 @UndisScot Like most Scottish Castles in the mid1800s were seen as ready made quarries and stone work taken to build houses and walls locally. However the stone at Fast was a rather poor quality. There was still alot of the ruin present in the early 1800s.
Great Bascinet & overlap of modern replica. My favourite as its like the bascinet of the Wolf of Badenoch who burnt Elgin Cathedral in 1390 & played chess with the Devil before dying during a thunderstorm at Ruthven Castle (1405).
Rothesay Castle (Scotland). #OTD King Robert III died here in 1406 on hearing his Son & Heir James I had been captured by English Pirates off Flambrough Head while fleeing the Bass Rock heading for France. James returned from English captivity in 1424 & punished rebel Scots Lords
As a boy I was amazed at the work of Alan Sorrell. His reconstruction of Dirleton was the first image of its kind I ever saw. So I copied his techinque of boxing views a section at a time. I used (8 pence) Postcard images in 1981 then scaled up to A3 size (Tantallon example)
Battle of Arkinholm 1455 Red Douglas defeat Black Douglas forces. The Black Douglas's Brother the Earl of Moray killed & beheaded. His other Brother the Earl of Ormonde was wounded but brought back to good health to also be beheaded. Heads were presented to King James II of Scots
Dirlot Castle, Caithness (Scotland) measurement layout sketch, based on Plan, original watercolour reconstruction suggestion (1999) & later Paint version. Keep built by Reginald Cheyne. Site also held by Gunn, Mackay and Sutherland families. #DirlotCastle #ScottishCastles