Stirling Castle Scotland stock photo
{"Image ImageDescription": "\"Stirling castle sits on top of a rocky outcrop with a commanding view of the surrounding area. In its long history it was where the kings and queens of Scotland were crowned.It is one of the largest and most important castles, both historically and architecturally, in Scotland. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification from the earliest times. Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.\"", "Image Copyright": "John Butterfield"}