"A walk round one of our local Castles!" Topic

Yeh we are a bit spoiled in Northumberland!
I took a few pics of my trip there today, if anyone wants a look link

Enjoy! – I hope it helps someone painting model fortifications!

Well, that was quite enjoyable! Not as much as actually being there, but close. Thank you much for sharing!

Thanks, Herk. I think that's the castle I saw from the train, on the way up to Edinburgh. Unfortunately that's as close as I got.

There are some interesting pillboxes quite nearby to the castle with non-standard construction.

Thank you for posting the link to the photos.

An impressive site. Was this castle "slighted" by the Roundheads in their manic destructive tour of Britain?

English Heritage say: 'In the late 15th and 16th centuries, Dunstanburgh Castle was in decline. Too large and expensive to maintain, its decaying walls provided a tempting source of stone for other buildings, while its strategic weakness – lying too far from the Scottish border, and too distant from the main road – was all too apparent.' link

Its generally a truism that Parliamentary forces used any well maintained defences. Poor Dunstanburgh suffered the fate of the Roman wall in getting its stone removed for building!

Thanks!