Dundee Castle, a key English-held stronghold on the Tay estuary, was captured by Scottish forces in 1312 and promptly demolished to prevent re-occupation — following the consistent Bruce policy of slighting captured fortifications. The Dundee recovery was part of the systematic dismantling of the English castle network in eastern Scotland in the years before Bannockburn, progressively isolating the remaining English garrisons and demonstrating that England could not indefinitely maintain garrison Scotland.
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.
Research a location near this battlefield