Bothwell Castle on the Clyde was arguably the most architecturally impressive castle in Scotland: a massive stone donjon surrounded by curtain walls. When Edward I captured it in 1301 he turned it into an English administrative centre for the west of Scotland. Bruce recaptured it after Bannockburn and demolished it — consistent with his policy of denying the English permanent fortified bases. The ruins that survive today show the scale of what Bruce destroyed.
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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