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My jumbled A to Z on Scottish Castles by Mike Brown
Castles are: -
More than monumental piles of crumbling stone
Magical monuments to power and prejudice
Links to our lineage
Ghostly reminders of ghastly goings on
Glowering gushing gargoyles
Crannogs in the Highlands
Chains of communication on the Western seaboard
Deep dungeons for the lower orders
Fortresses favouring the feudal Lairds
Heraldic Homesteads
Eerie echoes of endless executions in Earls abodes
Jiles and Jougs
Keeps for the unruly and unholy
Lodgings for Argyll
Seats of aristocracy wi’ spiral stairs
Holiday homes for Queens and followers
Palaces in places for Earls (in Orkney) and Royals (in Edinburgh)
Queens Prisons and Princes playgrounds
Regular squaddies billets in barracks
Timeless tenacious ties and twists to our history
Arches haudin up mony tons o’ stane
Niches shelterin cauld stoney lonely likenesses
Omnipotent ostentation
Thrones for their Majesties
Batteries booming in battles
William the Douglas dastardly deceased.
A’been them A’a is Stirling
Mike Brown fae Doune
