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Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
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Fig. 1203.—Elgin, House in. (Copied from Rhinds Sketches in Moray.) was much encouraged by William the Lion and Alexander ii. Under thelatter the Episcopal See was transferred from Spynie to Elgin, and theprivileges of a merchant guild were conferred on the burgesses. FOURTH PERIOD — 86 HOUSES IN ELGIN Elgin, like many other towns, owes its origin to the existence of asuitable site for a fortress, which in this instance consists of a conicalhill at the west end of the burgh. Being composed of sand and gravel,
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Fig. l20i.—Elgin. Elchies House. this site was readily fortified with a ditch and palisaded mound,such as doubtless constituted the original castle. Before the time ofEdward i., however, these simple works had been converted into a castle HOUSES IN ELGIN 87 FOURTH PERIOD of the First Period, which crowned the Lady Hill, and in which he lodgedwhen he visited the district in 1296. A keep seems to have been addedat a later date, when the castle became the residence of the Earls of Moray,which it continued to be till the fall of the Douglases in the middle of thefifteenth century. But all that now remains of the structure is a few frag-ments of wall, too firmly cemented with run lime to permit of their beingcarried ofi as building materials. The town of Elgin is built on the same planas the old town of Edinbui-gh and many otherScottish burghs—i.e., with one wide central street,from which lanes or closes branch ofi on bothsides, giving access to the houses which came tobe erected in th

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