Drumlanrig Castle
Visit to Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland August 2013
Drumlanrig Castle. Scotland
Time Team S12-E04 Drumlanrig, Dumfries
Twenty years ago, the Duke of Buccleuch discovered that the remains of a Roman fort might lie a few hundred metres from his home, Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries. Time Team start digging.
Tough Mudder Scotland UK 2012 - dumfries
tough mudder uk scotland 2012 july 14th saturday.... my bday :)
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Richard Broomhall (me)
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Drumlanrig Castle, Sanquhar
Drumlanrig Castle ,near Sanquhar, Dumfries & Galloway
Drumlanrig Castle
A look around Drumlanrig Castle gardens and grounds, June 2014.
Located in the Scottish lowlands a little bit above Dumfries. This makes it an easy day trip from Glasgow, Edinburgh or the north of England.
The castle was built in the late 1600s and now holds part of the Buccleuch art collection. This includes works by Gainsborough, Rembrandt, and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Haydn F.J. Andante with variations in f minor. Aleksandra Mikulska. Licensed to the public under
Inside view of Caverlock Castle, Dumfries, Scotland.
This is a view of the inside of Caverlock Castle, Dumfries, Scotland.
Gardens of Drumlanrig Castle
More views of the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland.
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Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland
This is Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland. Here, housed inside, is £450m worth of valuable antiques and art. Also this is the castle where a £50m da vinci painting was stolen from in 2003
Haunting History of :Sanquhar Castle, Dumfries, Scotland.
The name Sanquhar comes from the Scottish Gaelic language Seann Cathair, meaning old fort. There is a 15th-century castle ruin that overlooks the town, but the name predates even this ancient fort. The antiquary, William Forbes Skene even considered it the probable location of the settlement named Corda in Ptolemy's Geographia. With its location along the River Nith, Sanquhar has been a major crossroads for centuries. Artifacts have been found here from Neolithic times. The remains of several prehistoric British forts can be found in the area as well as traces of a Roman outpost.
The ancient hill fort at Tynron Doon is located about 28 kilometres away from the town. This fort is described in Archaeology of late Celtic Britain and Ireland by L R Laing (1975) as a well-preserved multivallate hillfort which probably began its existence in the Iron Age and continued to be used throughout the Dark Ages and into the early Medieval period. During Roman times the fort would have been in Selgovae territory; after the Romans departed it lay on the borders of the Strathclyde Britons and the Galwyddel. This place is associated with a local legend of a heidless horseman who is supposed to have ridden down from it as an omen of death, a story which possibly has some origin in a Celtic head cult. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1822) attest that Robert the Bruce hid in the forests about this hill after he had killed one of his rivals, John the Red Comyn.
Sanquhar Castle
Two ghosts are said to haunt the castle ruins. One is a mysterious White lady, a beautiful young woman with long, pale tresses. It is generally thought that she is the ghost of Marion of Dalpeddar, who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the 1590's possibly having been murdered by one Lord Robert Crichton. A woman's skeleton was discovered in a pit during excavations in the 1870s which might support this story. The other ghost is said to be that of John Wilson.
His story is as follows: John Wilson unfortunately got involved in a dispute during the late 1590s between Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, John's master, and Douglas of Drumlanrig who was a friend of Robert Crichton, Lord Sanquhar and Sheriff of Nithsdale. It was probably out of sheer spite and vindictiveness against Wilsons master that Crichton falsely accused John Wilson of trumped up crimes and had him locked up in jail.
Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of course protested Wilson's innocence but Crichton reacted in the extreme by having Wilson hanged. It is said that the ghost of John Wilson haunts the ruins of Sanquhar Castle and manifests itself by rattling its chains and moaning and groaning as an eternal reminder of the cruelty and barbarism of the castles former owner.
During the war of Scottish Independence the English army took over the old castle at Sanquhar. The Lord of the Castle, Sir William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, learned of this and came up with a clever plot where one man sneaked into the castle and threw open the gates, allowing Lord Douglas to seize it. The English began a counter-attack, but William Wallace learned of the battle and came to the rescue. As the English army retreated, Wallace chased them down and killed 500 of them. Wallace visited the castle on several occasions.
It is believed the Crichton family came to Britain from Hungary. During the reign of Robert the Bruce they obtained the lands round about Sanquhar and ruled over the area from the mid-14th until the mid-17th centuries. Mary, Queen of Scots, (cousin of Queen Elizabeth the 1st) came to Sanquhar in May 1568 after her defeat at the battle of Langside. Lord Crichton of Sanquhar was loyal to Mary, and harboured her until she escaped across the River Nith. For this, he was punished after the Scots lairds besieged and captured Sanquhar castle once again.
The end of the Crichton family power in the area was the result of a lavish party. In July 1617, the King of Great Britain, James VI and I, travelled through Scotland to Glasgow, and on his way home stopped at the castle in Sanquhar. The Crichtons welcomed him with a display so huge that it bankrupted them. It is said that Lord Crichton escorted the king to bed carrying a lighted torch made from £30,000 in bond notes that the king owed Lord Crichton. By 1639, the Crichtons had moved to Ayrshire, and sold their holdings in Sanquhar to the Earl of Queensberry.
A joke in the region is that many a young woman who worked for the Crichtons would Go in the servants' entrance and come out the family way. However, one well-regarded member of Crichton family was James Crichton (known as 'The Admirable Crichton').
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Old Photographs New Abbey Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of New Abbey, a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway. The village has a wealth of history including the ruined Cistercian abbey Sweetheart Abbey, founded by Lady Devorgilla in 1273 in memory of her husband John Balliol. She kept his embalmed heart close to her for the rest of her life. The monks named the abbey dulce cor. meaning sweet heart. The village has a watermill, the New Abbey Corn Mill. Sir William Patterson, founder of the Bank of England, was buried in the village in 1719.
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions in Dumfries - Travel Scotland
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Dumfries - Travel Scotland: Caerlaverock Castle, Drumlanrig Castle, Dino Park, Dalscone Farm Fun, Dumfries Museum, Robert Burns House, Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Hetland Garden Centre, Dock Park Dumfries, WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, Robert Burns Centre, Savings Banks Museum, Robert Burns Mausoleum, Morton Castle, Crichton Memorial Church, Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Drumlanrig - A Year in the Life of a Great Estate, 1992 (Clip)
Drumlanrig is the Dumfrieshire home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry: a castle at the heart of one of the great Scottish estates.
In the company of the Duke we are taken on a tour of the estate; its woodlands and moorlands. As the seasons turn we see the castle in all its varied moods.
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Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland
A view of the Drumlanrig Castle from the gardens.
Gardens of Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland
View of the beautiful gardens at Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland.
Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )
Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. Dumfries is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South. People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.
Like the rest of Dumfries and Galloway, of Scotland's three major geographical areas Dumfries lies in the Southern Uplands. The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West.
Dumfries has a long history as a county town, and as the market town of a surrounding rural hinterland. Dumfries is a relatively prosperous community but the town centre has been exposed to the centrifugal forces that have seen retail, business, educational, residential and other uses gravitate towards the town's urban fringe.
Located on top of a small hill, Dumfries Museum is centred on the 18th century windmill which stands above the town. Included are fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles. Based in the control tower near Tinwald Downs, the aviation museum has an extensive indoor display of memorabilia which strives to preserve aviation heritage, much of which has come via various recovery activities.
The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. There are a number of festivals which take place throughout the year, mostly based on traditional values. Guid Nychburris (Middle Scots, meaning Good Neighbours) is the main festival of the year, a ceremony which is largely based on the theme of a positive community spirit.
Dumfries is linked to the Northbound A74(M) motorway at Beattock via the A701 road. The A75 road eastbound links Dumfries to the southbound A74(M), leading to the M6 motorway and Carlisle. The A75 road west links Dumfries with the ferry port of Stranraer. The A76 road connects to Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Dumfries railway station lies on the Glasgow South Western Line. It was awarded Best Station Awards by British Rail in 1986 and 1987. The train service is now operated by private company Abellio ScotRail which provides services to Glasgow and Carlisle, and less frequent services direct to Newcastle. The nearest station to Dumfries on the West Coast Mainline is 14 miles (23 km) east along the A709 road at Lockerbie, and the nearest West Coast Mainline station linking directly to Dumfries by rail is Carlisle.
As the largest settlement in Southern Scotland, Dumfries is recognised as a centre for visiting surrounding points of interest. The following are all within easy reach:
John Paul Jones Cottage Museum – The traditional Scottish cottage in which John Paul Jones was born in 1747.
Solway Coast
Sweetheart Abbey in the village of New Abbey
New Abbey Corn Mill Museum
Criffel – a hill on the Solway Coast popular with hill walkers for its magnificent views of the Southern Scottish coastline and across the Solway Firth to the Lake District of Cumbria
Threave Castle in Castle Douglas, home to the Douglas Clan of James Douglas who fought with Robert the Bruce
Moniaive conservation village
Moffat and the views nearby of The Devil's Beef Tub, The Grey Mare's Tail waterfall and the A708 from Moffat past the Grey Mare's Tail to St Mary's Loch.
Mabie Forest - popular destinations for outdoor recreation such as mountain bike and walking.
Ae village and forest
Lochmaben with its lochs popular with boaters and also its history with Robert the Bruce
Wanlockhead – Britain's highest village registered at 1,531 feet (467 m) above sea level and the Lead Mining Museum
Caerlaverock Castle
Drumlanrig Castle
Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre to have been established in the West.
Bridge house museum at the foot of the old bridge within Dumfries
Burns' house & mausoleum in St Micheals graveyard
the Robert Burns centre on the mill sands dumfries
At Twynholm is the David Coulthard Museum.
Gretna Green and the Old Blacksmith's Shop famous for runaway marriages.
Tharpaland – International Buddhist Retreat Centre under the auspices of the New Kadampa Tradition. Kelsang Gyatso completed a three-year retreat at Tharpaland.
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TWELVE APOSTLES
DUMFRIES
DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY
SCOTLAND
INTRO
THE TWELVE APOSTLES IS THE LARGEST STONE CIRCLE ON MAINLAND SCOTLAND. THE RING IS SITUATED A FEW MILES NW OF DUMFRIES, BETWEEN THE VILLAGES OF NEWBRIDGE AND HOLYWOOD. THE SITE IS JUST OFF THE A76 AND NEXT TO THE B729 ROAD, WITH PUBLIC ACCESS.
THE CIRCLE MAY HAVE BEEN PART OF A DRUIDIC COMPLEX. THE NEARBY HOLYWOOD VILLAGE MEANING HOLY WOOD, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A SACRED GROVE AREA. THE DRUIDS CAME MUCH MUCH LATER THAN THE NEOLITHIC CIRCLES, THEY MAY HAVE TAKEN THE RING ON FOR THERE OWN PURPOSES.
CIRCLE
THE 90M DIAMETER RING IS THOUGHT TO DATE BETWEEN 5000-3500 YEARS AGO, THIS IS LATE NEOLITHIC OR BRONZE AGE. ELEVEN MEGALITHS REMAIN WITH FIVE NOW RECUMBENT. A 1789 PLAN SHOWS TWELVE, IT IS THOUGH THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN EIGHTEEN STONES ORIGINALLY.
THE MEGALITHS ARE MADE OF SILURIAN ROCK BAR ONE WHICH IS PORPHYRY. SOME OF THE STONES BEAR NATURAL WATER WORN CUP MARKS AND QUARTZ VEINS. THE ORIGINAL USE OF THE SITE IS NOW LONG LONG LOST TO US.
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER THOM, THE SCOTTISH ARCHAEOASTRONOMER MADE A PLAN OF THE SITE IN 1939 AND FOUND A ‘TYPE 1 EGG’ SHAPE. THE LARGE RING IS REMINISCENT OF THE CUMBRIAN CIRCLE LONG MEG, JUST OVER THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
EXCAVATIONS
IN 1882 A BRONZE FIGURE WAS UNCOVERED INSIDE THE CIRCLE. THE FIGURE IS SAINT NORBET AT 4” HIGH. THE FIGURE IS DATED TO THE 1100’S. WHITE QUARTZ HAS ALSO BEEN FOUND IN THE CIRCLE.
CURSUS
THERE ARE TWO CURSUS ENCLOSURES NEARBY. THE HOLYWOOD SOUTH CURSUS IS A CIGAR SHAPED ENCLOSURE FROM THE EARLY NEOLITHIC, THIS PREDATES THE CIRCLE. THE CURSUS IS 285M X 35M WHICH GETS SMALLER AT THE NORTH END. THE CURSUS IS BISECTED BY THE B729 ROAD. THIS ENCLOSURE IS ONE OF OVER THIRTY KNOWN IN SCOTLAND. STONEHENGE ALSO HAS TWO CURSUS ENCLOSURES.
OTHER INFO
ANOTHER CIRCLE OF NINE MEGALITHS ONCE EXISTED A MILE AWAY TO THE EAST. THIS WAS OBLITERATED FOR BUILDING MATERIAL. THE TWELVE APOSTLES IS NOT ONLY THE BIGGEST CIRCLE ON MAINLAND SCOTLAND IT IS THE FIFTH OR SEVENTH BIGGEST IN THE UK.
STORIES FROM THE 1800’S LINK THE RING WITH THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. THE TWELTH STONE REPRESENTS JUDAS ISCARIOT. HOWEVER STONE CIRCLES WERE ERECTED LONG LONG BEFORE CHRISTIANITY.
THE SITE IS VERY LARGE AND SEEMS SPARSE OF STONES, DUE TO ITS SIZE BUT IS STILL VERY WORTH A VISIT. THIS AREA WAS NO DOUBT VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS FROM DEEP ANTIQUITY.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS.