A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Castle-Cole, an ancient fortalice in Clyne parish, SE Sutherland, on the E side of the Black Water, 1¾ mile above that river's junction with the Brora. One of the structures once so common in the N of Scotland, and known as Pictish towers, it has an oblong form, with uncemented walls 11 feet thick, and with a doorway 5 feet high and 3 wide; within the walls it measured 22 feet in length; but it now is reduced to merely the lower part of the S and E walls, about 12 feet high. It was formerly surrounded with a defensive work, 6 feet from its exterior, and with a line of watch-towers onward to the coast; and it must, in the times before the invention of gunpowder, have been impregnable.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Administrative units: | Clyne ScoP Sutherland ScoCnty |
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