An opening in the north wall of the castle allows us into the vaulted cellar.
I wonder if this vaulted cellar was the dungeon in which William Scott of Harden was imprisoned.
Another view of the vaulted cellar. It was extremely difficult to obtain photos in here as my glasses and the camera lens kept steaming up.
Looking towards the other end, using only the natural light without the camera flash we can see that this cellar appears at one time to have been divided into two sections.
The view through a north facing arrow slot in the vaulted cellar
The south facing view through another arrow slot in the vaulted cellar. Can you imagine being imprisoned here, with this your only view of the outside world?
Coming out of the cellar and climbing to the next floor level, the hole in the foreground exposes a broken roof of a third section of the vaulted cellar which is walled off completely from the two sections we have just visited.
We are now on the first floor level, standing in what would have been the Laird's Hall. Note that above the opening leading into the adjoining room some repairs have been carried out on the wall, possibly during the nineteenth century. Perhaps it was in the Laird's Hall that Sir Gideon announced his intention to hang his prisoner. His wife Margaret persuaded him to offer William Scott the option of marrying the ugly daughter of the family, Agnes (Meg).
The option of death or marriage to Meg was put to William Scott and he chose to be hanged. He was led into the trees to meet his death...............
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