dunnottar castle , Scotland

William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, the Marquis of Montrose and the future King Charles II, all graced the Castle with their presence. Most famously though, it was at Dunnottar Castle that a small garrison held out against the might of Cromwells army for eight months and saved the Scottish Crown Jewels, the Honours of Scotland, from destruction. Crown, sceptre and sword now take pride of place in Edinburgh Castle.

A darker chapter in the history of Dunnottar is that of the Whigs Vault. The gruesome story of the imprisonment in 1685 of a group of Covenanters who refused to acknowledge the Kings supremacy in spiritual matters.

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