Elibank Castle & The Tale o' Muckle Mooth Meg

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A peek into the adjoining room. Although on the same level as the Laird's Hall, directly above the vaulted cellar, this room is too small to have been the Hall and there is no evidence of a grand fireplace, so it was probably a chamber. Perhaps it was Meg's chamber.
James Hogg, in his "The Fray of Elibank" describes her thus:- "Now Meg was but thin an' her nose it was lang, and her mou' it was muckle as could weel be. Her een they were grey and her colour was wan, but her nature was generous, gentle and free"

Looking upwards towards the roof. There would have been an upper level of chambers which would have been supported by a wooden floor.
Anyway at the last moment, William Scott said he would marry Meg and he was reprieved from hanging.

Such a lovely view the Murrays would have had from Elibank Castle, looking north-east diagonally across the Tweed valley.
More to follow