Thomas Randolph Earl of Moray captured Edinburgh Castle by one of the most audacious feats of the Wars of Independence. He led a small team up the north face of the volcanic rock at night, surprised the garrison, and captured the castle. Following Bruce policy of not allowing castles to fall back to English use, he had it dismantled. The capture and destruction happened just months before Bannockburn.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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