Eilean Donan Castle by Cecily Shakespeare, Jonathan Clark, Ju... - 9798888570548

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Eilean Donan CastleExploring a Highland Icon, Archaeological Research Excavations 20092017\nAuthor(s): Cecily Shakespeare, Jonathan Clark, Justin Garner-Lahire, Richard Oram, Nicola Toop\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Casemate Publishers, United States\nImprint: Casemate Publishers\nISBN-13: 9798888570548, 979-8888570548\nSynopsis\nNow hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned accurately in the complex dynamics of powerholding and display of the earls of Ross and associated militarised kindreds of the west Highlands during six centuries of change up to the castles destruction in 1719.\n\nA new history and the details of the below-ground archaeology allow u.