The Fortified House in Scotland
The Fortified House in Scotland is a five-volume book by the Scottish author Nigel Tranter .
Written between 1962 and 1970, it includes nearly 700 buildings in Scotland generally referred to as castles, small castles , defense towers and fortified manor houses. Tranter illustrated each example with pen and pen.
The work was an extension of The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400-1650 , which Tranter had written in the 1930s. However, much of his work is no longer in line with current research. The first four editions were published by Oliver & Boyd , the fourth by W. & R. Chambers . Tranter's work was reprinted in 1977 and 1986 by James Thin , reprinted The Mercat Press , to which Tranter made some revisions. The additional notes, the notes originally made in the fifth volume, have been redistributed across their respective volumes.
expenditure
- Volume 1: South East Scotland (1962)
- Volume 2: Central Scotland (1963)
- Stirlingshire , Fife , Kinross-shire , Perthshire and Clackmannanshire
- Volume 3: South West Scotland (1965)
- Volume 4: Aberdeenshire , Angus and Kincardineshire (1966)
- Volume 5: North and West Scotland and Miscellaneous (1970)
- Inverness-shire , Nairnshire , Banffshire , Moray , Caithness , Sutherland , Ross and Cromarty , Argyllshire , Buteshire , Dunbartonshire , Orkney and Shetland and buildings not published in previous editions.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nigel Tranter: The Fortified House in Scotland . Volume 1, 1962.