Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie framed & mounted landscape photograph

framed & mounted landscape photograph print of Balquhidder

and later to the young James VI

the island that has been at the heart of MacLeod territory for more than seven centuries

A large moss-covered oak fills the left of the frame

The Gordons took possession of it in 1535

Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie framed & mounted landscape photographPhotographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Mingary Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, one of the most remote corners of the Scottish mainland. The Campbells acquired this sea girt fortress from the MacIans of Ardnamurchan, extending their influence far beyond their Argyll heartland to the very tip of the west coast. Holding Mingary meant controlling the sea approaches between the Sound of Mull and the open Atlantic. It was never an easy place