Clan Douglas - Hermitage Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Frame Style:Natural by Malcolm II around 1016

by Malcolm II around 1016

and later to the young James VI

They were known across the region as "Cock o' the North

there is something satisfying about a place that simply announces it

What assembled there was a council of nobles quietly making plans for war

Clan Douglas - Hermitage Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Frame Style:Natural by Malcolm II around 1016Photographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Hermitage Castle, the great Border fortress in Liddesdale that the Douglases held from the fourteenth century. This was some of the most contested ground in Scotland, close to the English frontier, where powerful families fought for control of the crossing routes between the two kingdoms. The Douglases held Hermitage through generations of border warfare, and the castle became a symbol of their grip on