Scotland:  Dramatic Places - Historic Sites
By:  Brian C. Mack
Artist:  Karol K. Mack
 
                                                                                                                                                         
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TANTALLON
CASTLE

TANTALLON
CASTLE

Tantallon Castle
SCOTLAND

Dates from:  1350
Associated Clans / Families:
Douglas then Dalyrymple
 

Tantallon Castle sits atop rocky cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth.  The castle is considered the greatest fortress of Renaissance Scotland.  The stonework began in 1350 and was expanded in 1534.  The resultant fortress was besieged and destroyed in 1639, and by 1651 reduced to the ruin that it is today.  The painting illustrates a view of Tantallon from 2004.

Pictured:

Tantallon Castle   9" x 12" oil

An excerpt from the book Scotland:  Castles and Clans the Legends.

From:

 Disruptions

A Legend of Tantallon Castle

. . .  Sadler remained in Edinburgh until his house was besieged by an angry mob.  After a narrow miss from a musket ball, he moved to the nearby Tantallon Castle.  In a letter to Henry VIII, dated 6th November 1513, he remarked, Temptallaon is of suche strength as I nede not to feare the malice of myne enymeys, and there fre do thinke myself nowe to be out of daunger. . . .
 

Tantallon Castle is included in the Lowlands Map.

Map:

 Castles & Clans:
Scottish Lowlands

                                            
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