This data details the locations of castles in the south of Scotland in the 15th century. The locations were gathered by Prof MacQueen. The data were cleaned and mapped by Pauline Ward using ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 with assistance from Stuart Macdonald (both Data Library).

“Old Castle is now used as a prison. Its walls are built of coral rock – the foundation of the whole island. The moat is deep & runs most of the way round. In places its severity is eased by laden pawpaw trees, or crowds Indian & native children playing ball on ...

“… We went to the castle & saw these poor miserable prisoners…” Portrait of three indigenous men looking through a barred window. Lt. Irvine was on board the S.S. Salamis which was transporting troops to Portuguese East Africa and had stopped over at Lumbo. ❧ The im...

Photographic postcard of "the Nagoya castle, Nagoya, Japan." The castle is a five story building at the top of a stone base. Trees extend up the left and right side of the photo. The top of a building is in the bottom right corner of the photo.

"En del af Tananarive med den norske kirke" ("A part of Tananarive including the Norwegian Church"). The Tananarive image. From the left: Ambatonakanga, Ambatovinaky, the Prime Minister's palace, the Queen's castle. The picture also shows many other buildings from this ...

Andimeshk is one of the cities with several archeological buildings and monuments and it represents quantitatively and qualitatively a type of local and regional architecture belonging to historical and Islamic period. The castles are some of these monuments so that it ...

Photographic postcard of "Osaka castle." The two story castle sits on top of a large stone wall. Water boarders the wall to the left of the photo. Trees extend behind the castle toward the left of the photo.

Photographic postcard of the "Akashi public garden (the old castle)." The three story building sits at the top of a hill. A stone wall extends around the base of the building and across the photo. Trees cover the hill and block most of the view of the wall and the build...

Photographic postcard of the "Nijo castle, Kyoto." The gate of the castle is on the right side of the photo. The wall extends to the left and is part stone and part building. A person and child are walking by the corner of the wall. A tree is in the foreground blocking ...