 An abandoned, & heavily ruined, Scottish hunting lodge built in the 1100s with updates made in the 1500s. There really are castle ruins all over Scotland, but this one had the most incredible vaulted ceilling I've ever seen. Also, an intact staircase, many arrow loops, & some obvious cannonball damage to one of the walls. These structures are often remote, so upkeep would be expensive and difficult, but it is such a shame to see these buildings, full of incredible stone work, be left to ruin. 38 comments
 @kristiedegaris Hi Kristie, years ago I met an #irish guy with a #stone hobby: https://megalithicirelandmap.github.io/. Maybe you like each other's work. Greetings from Bavaria!  It's awesome, if slightly unnerving ๐ I got rid of my camera and just use an iPhone for everything now, the landscape mode would have worked well to capture that. There used to be an app by Microsoft called PhotoSynth, it would take multiple photos and stitch them together as you moved the camera around. Super cool. Sadly missed. The only thing MS have ever done that was any good imho. Yeah, those Samsung cameras are fantastic! I spent years not carrying my DLSR everywhere, it was a natural progression; there are some things I can't capture with the iPhone, but nearly all the things I *like* photographing, its perfect, actually much better than the DLSR because it just works. Especially true for macro photography - some of the best photos I have ever taken. @kristiedegaris thanks so much! Iโd say I will be. Next time my mum visits me (in NL) from Australia, Iโd love to take her on a trip to see a few things like this! @kristiedegaris @smirandafield yes please an exact location would be good. I live in fife and would like to visit it. Thanks @kristiedegaris @smirandafield I live in Perthshire and canโt place this wonder. Can you help me find it. I wonโt sleep โtil I know where it is ๐๐ @kristiedegaris Very nice photos! And wow, that vaulted ceiling is amazing! I'm not to sure I'd stand under it though. But then it's been there for hundreds of years so...๐ค @elaterite I'm extra careful when exploring ruins and this ceilling is still solid. It's a funny thing with stone, it looks ruined but might last for 30 or 300 more years, and as you say has been there for longer... @kristiedegaris Yup, I like exploring Ancestral Puebloan cliff ruins in southeast Utah. Just got back from a trip there. Not as old as cultural sites in your country, but 800-1000 years old. The ruins themselves are pretty safe, getting to them is not so safe sometimes. But that's the fun of it, scrambling up, down, and through the canyons! @kristiedegaris lovely photos, if only those stones could talk! Weโve stayed in this tower, not far from Peebles, years ago - the ground floor had a vaulted stone ceiling too https://www.neidpathcastle.com/barns-tower @kristiedegaris The craftsmanship has to be appreciated. How vertical and straight those walls are. That ceiling. The tradesmen of the day must have taken alot of pride in their work. @kristiedegaris @kristiedegaris @kristiedegaris @kristiedegaris Yes, concrete has serious consequences in many areas. Sand extraction from coastal seabeds causing seashore depletion and more seriously, anialating habitats for sealife. @kristiedegaris Is the X stone work a vaulted ceiling? Or am I misreading that image. @harmonicarichard Yep, the black and white 'x' stonework is the ceiling. Here's a slightly wider shot. @kristiedegaris I'm happy my logic was right. :-). At first I thought "is that a repair?" before thinking "nah, it's a vault." :-)- @kristiedegaris Imagine building a vaulted ceiling with dry stack stone. How wonderful! #Scotland, #Castle, #StoneMasonry @kristiedegaris It is not impossible to make a stone vaulted ceiling. See. They did it. Oh the skills and the patience it must take. Thank you for sharing the photos and the alt text descriptions. @Pollinators I'm working hard on my alt text, I hope to learn how to make better descriptions. @kristiedegaris You can pretend you are describing the scene to a loved one that has been blinded. #AltText @Pollinators @kristiedegaris I'm not sure if this works for everyone, but I take one good look at my photo, close my eyes and try to recall what I remember from the photo, what stands out. |
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@kristiedegaris beautiful! ๐คฉ๐ฅฐ