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Ravenscraig Castle is a ruined castle located in Kirkcaldy which dates from around 1460. The castle is an early example of artillery defence in Scotland. The castle is an early example of artillery defence in Scotland.
Royal Burgh of Kirkcaldy Map from 1824 displaying the length of "the lang toun" Kirkcaldy (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair Chaladinn) is a former royal burgh and town. Known as one of Scotland's "most ancient burghs", the area surrounding the modern town has a history dating as far back as between 2500 BC and 500 BC as a possible funerary landscape.
Kirkcaldy (/ k ɜːr ˈ k ɔː d i / ⓘ kur-KAW-dee; Scots: Kirkcaldy; Scottish Gaelic: Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (19 kilometres) north of Edinburgh and 27 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (44 km) south-southwest of Dundee .
Ravenscraig Street, Craignairn House With Boundary Walls And Gatepiers 56°07′23″N 3°08′23″W / 56.123058°N 3.139742°W / 56.123058; -3.139742 ( Ravenscraig Street, Craignairn House With Boundary Walls And Gatepiers
Ravenscraig Castle: mid-15th century [1] Ruin: Historic Scotland: Kirkcaldy: Sinclair family, in the grounds of Ravenscraig Park: Rossend Castle: tower: private offices: Dury & Melville families painted ceiling in National Museum of Scotland: Rosyth Castle: Ruin: in Naval dockyard: Rumgally House: tower house: 16th century: no access, within ...
Ravenscraig Castle, in Kirkcaldy dates from the fifteenth century and is one of the first castles in Britain to have been built for both defensive and offensive artillery use. The Sinclairs received Ravenscraig after they resigned the Earldom of Orkney. They owned it until 1650 and it was the Sinclairs who completed the castle.
Ravenscraig, Kirkcaldy, begun about 1460, is probably the first castle in the British Isles to be built as an artillery fort, incorporating "D-shape" bastions that would better resist cannon fire and on which artillery could be mounted. [60] Towards the end of the period royal builders in Scotland adopted European Renaissance styles in castle ...
Ravenscraig, Kirkcaldy, begun about 1460, is probably the first castle in the British Isles to be built as an artillery fort, incorporating "D-shape" bastions that would better resist cannon fire and on which artillery could be mounted. [16]