#Stirling Crest

[oftheriverseine]

If you have some kind of sound related synesthesia PLEASE listen to Family Crest or Oh Hellos songs

#/nf ofc #when sen is not quiet #especially ‘Beneath the Brine’ or ‘I Sleep With The Windows Open’ for Family Crest #and ‘I Was Wrong’ or ‘Soap’ from the Oh Hellos #alternatively if you don’t like songs with lyrics #any and all Infinity Train OST and Lindsey Stirling pieces are just #so good #for me they just look and sound gorgeous #synesthesia #chromesthesia #<- the type I have #the family crest #family crest #the oh hellos #oh hellos #also warning for sensory overload #kind of? it’s the good kind #but it is a lot #so just in case #song recs

[avaford2009]

I made myself for Thomas & Friends with Digimon Crests! Maybe I should add those Digimon by myself.

#thomas & friends #digimon adventure #thomas the tank engine #emily the stirling engine #percy the small engine #james the red engine #toby the tram engine #edward the blue engine #henry the green engine #gordon the big engine #duck the great western engine #donald and douglas the scottish twin engines #oliver the great western engine #nia the kenyan engine #rebecca the yellow engine #ava ford #crest of courage #crest of light #crest of friendship #crest of hope #crest of love #crest of knowledge #crest of sincerity #crest of reliability #crest of kindness #crest of focus #crest of strength #crest of truth #crest of miracles #crest of loyalty

[ryan-rts]

Hello there! Long time no see?

Before I talk about this model I do have to apologise for not uploading since my last post, life and mental health took over a lot and I just didn't have time nor motivation to post anything. However I'm going to try and make this a more constant thing rather than just whenever and whatever. I still need to plan out stuff, however I'll update you all when the time is right.

Anyway, today's model is of a locomotive I've taken some interest in, this is a 9F.

British Railways 9F class No.92250 was built at Crewe Works in 1958 and became the last steam locomotive to be fully constructed at Crewe. It was intended to be the last 9F built, and on top of that the last steam locomotive built by BR, and on technicality, if we're going off locomotive numbers, it is. However, 9F No.92220 'Evening Star' became the last 9F built and overall the Last Steam Locomotive built in 1960, by Swindon.

Despite the factor Swindon officially built the last 9F, I've never had a soft spot for Evening Star. However, after coming into ownership of a couple 9Fs, I was wondering what to do with them. The first one I got was a Single Chimney 9F which, as I have my own Railway Series Headcanon, will become some form of my Murdoch, and the second one, which was this one, was a Double Chimney Variant, but the loco only, with the tender it has coming from a Standard 5. The latter 9F was going to be a project by my friend Amethyst, known on Twitter as Merry Hampton Productions or @/B661Sutton (link at the end of post), to turn into a Double Chimney member of the class based around Tyseley.

Now, I had 251 9Fs I could have chose to turn this one into, however, as I work in Crewe, am quite local and also have taken interest into a majority of locomotives built there, I thought that 92250 would be the best fitting.

The first thing this model required was a new chimney. The later batches of 9Fs were all built with the Double chimney and blast pipe arrangement, however, 92250 was a little bit different.

In the 50s, Dr. Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (what a name) designed and produced a type of chimney and blast pipe arrangement that would use steam more effectively which would help reduce the amount of coal an engine would intake. It was fitted to many engines in service and Preservation, a famous example being No.4 'Edward Thomas' on the Talyllyn Railway, and his Sudrian Counterpart Peter Sam.

92250 was built in 1958 and a year later in 1959 was fitted with an oblong Giesl Ejector. This chimney offered the same level of draught for a reduced level of back-pressure or created an increase in draught with no performance loss elsewhere. There was no change in the usage of coal either, so overall the chinmey made little difference to the 9Fs already stirling performance. 92250 retained this chinmey until withdrawal in 1965 and was Scrapped at Cashmores in Newport.

The chimney I used on my model of 92250 was a white metal one from RT Models. The chimney is designed to replace the ones on the Hornby Austerities and is more fit for industrial locomotives, so on the 9F it's a little bit short, however with little reference to how long it is, I removed the old one, cut down this one, and fitted it. It still looked the part however from some angles compared to pictures you can tell its a little too short.

After this the model was painted Black. For my black paint I use Revel Aqua colour. Their matt and gloss blacks have some good coverage, and as they are the colours I use most, I can go to my local Hobbycraft and pick them up easily.

After painting, I had to scrape most of the Factory Weathering off the Rods, add the numbers and Crests, which are all transfers from Fox Transfers (link to the numbers and crests bellow) and a nice coat of Humbrol Matt Varnish. I went for Matt as it was to hand and also as it would dull back the very glossy effect of the paint.

So that's all it was for 92250, a rather quick and simple project, which anyone could do as a good starter project.

Here is a link to Amethyst's twitter, where you can go and see her lovely modelling projects:

https://twitter.com/B661Sutton?t=tl58JqYScDFAOGbV-quvCw&s=09

And here is a link to the Transfers I used from Fox Transfers:

https://www.fox-transfers.co.uk/steam-cabside-numbering-3-sizes-58502

https://www.fox-transfers.co.uk/early-lion-and-wheel-totem-58306

Picture credit from below are to their respective owners on Flickr

[scotianostra]

St Giles Crown Spire.

This beautiful spire can be seen fro all over Edinburgh and has been a prominent feature of the city’s skyline for over 500 years.

The crown spire was erected in 1495, and rebuilt by John Mylne in 1648 although recent studies have narrowed the dates down slightly.

A tree-ring dating specialist dates the wooden structure inside the spire to  the winter of AD 1453-54 and the second was just a few years later in the winter of 1459-60.  The timber frame is part of the modification of an earlier tower at St Giles of which some masonry survives,  the original tower is said  to have been present by 1387 and on which storks nested in 1416 according to the Scotichronicon, a medieval history of Scotland.

The dates infer the completion of the crown spire as being after 1460 and probably by 1467. This was when the church was granted collegiate status from the pope, although the crown spire we see today was much altered in 1653.

The specialist was also able to identify where the wood came from the Royal Forest of Darnaway, in Morayshire. The results revealed that several of the trees were over 300 years old when felled.  The St Giles tree-ring data matched extremely closely with data from the late 14th century roof of Randolph’s Hall at Darnaway Castle.

Darnaway Forest is known to have supplied timber to other high status Scottish medieval building projects, including Stirling Castle. However, it was not previously known that Darnaway had supplied St Giles.

The steeple is one of only two surviving medieval crown steeples in Scotland: the other is at King's College, Aberdeen and dates from after 1505.

For the arrival into Edinburgh of Anne of Denmark in 1590, 21 weather vanes were added to the crests of the steeple; these were removed prior to 1800 and replacements were installed in 2005 The steeple was repaired by John Mylne the Younger in 1648. Mylne added pinnacles half-way up the crests of the buttresses; he is also largely responsible for the present appearance of the central pinnacle and may have rebuilt the tower's traceried parapet. The weathercock atop the central pinnacle was created by Alexander Anderson in 1667; it replaced an earlier weathercock of 1567 by Alexander Honeyman. 

Want to get up close and personal with the spire, and indeed the whole building, click on the link below for 360 pics.

https://www.360globe.net/scotland/edinburgh/st-giles-cathedral/crown-spire-south

#Scotland #scottish #Edinburgh #Old Town #history #my pics

[xaspiringbeamoflightx]

           the pirate au - @magicaljameshook​​ [listen] [more pirate au]

the captain - biffy clyro all hands on deck, pt1: raise the sail - funeral for a friend all hands on deck, pt 2: open  water - funeral for a friend a rush and a push and the land is ours - broadway calls tempest - aurelio voltaire cold hailey rainy night - the imagined village the plank - the devil makes three twiddles - misbehavin’ maidens master of tides - lindsey stirling the great wide open - funeral for a friend the horror and the wild - the amazing devil this sea - aurelio voltaire crawled out of the sea (interlude) - laura marling davy jones - hans zimmer rescue me - breabach i wait for you - right away, great captain! that sea, the gambler - gregory alan isakov the crooked kind - radical face tha mo ghaoul air àird a' chuain (my love is on the high seas) - julie fowlis oh, deceiver - right away, great captain! her & the sea - clann jolly sailor bold - ginny di under the water - aurora beneath the brine - the family crest the sweetest wave - funeral for a friend the ship in port - radical face the captain and the hourglass - laura marling the night we met - lord huron to be alone - hozier devil's backbone - the civil wars no time to die - billie eilish right away, great captain! - right away, great captain! the ultimate war - john williams drowsy maggie / rakish paddy / harvest storm - atlan

#gemmamakesthings #playlist #happiestplacetask #happiestplacetask8 #pirate au #listen guys... the au lives rent free in my brain.... it simply needed a playlist #a playlist that is 2hours and 19 minutes long..............................

[artpictures]

Stirling Castle tours 2023 from David Rankin on Vimeo.

Four castles tour featuring Stirling Castle , Four ancient Scottish castles feature in this tour – Drummond Castle , Stirling Castle , Doune Castle and Linlithgow Palace in Scotland .

Your private tour includes a pickup from your hotel / Airbnb in Edinburgh , a professional driver / guide , a stay of up to an hour at each castle plus a return to Edinburgh . Your guide will give details of the history of the castle and information about films and TV shows made at each location . Your guide will always be friendly, helpful and informative . Stirling Castle is one of Scotland’s most impressive castles due to its imposing position and impressive architecture. Built by the Stewart kings of Scotland , the castle was completely renovated over a 10 year period which finished in 2011.

From Stirling Castle’s ramparts, visitors can take in views of the Forth Valley and Ben Lomond , as well as two of Scotland’s most important battle sites – Stirling Bridge (1297) and Bannockburn (1314). The castle is at the head of Stirling’s historic old town.Like Edinburgh Castle , Stirling sits on a volcanic rock dominating the city skyline .

Stirling Castle is not only one of Scotland’s grandest and most imposing castles, it was also a real favourite with Scotland’s Stewart kings and queens. James IV created the Great Hall, the largest medieval banqueting hall ever built in Scotland, and James V’s Royal Palace, with its lavishly decorated Renaissance façades, was a masterpiece of the period.

Major conservation work has been carried out at Stirling Castle over many years to preserve the attraction as a major national and international monument. The refurbishment of the Great Hall was completed in 2011 . A particular feature of the Great Hall is stained glass windows featuring clan crests . A number of banquets and concerts are held in the Hall throughout the year

[southernimages]

Aldgate to Stirling 1........around the RSL and church

Dear Reader: There is a small stream running under the roadway which is overshadowed by tall Eucalyptus trees. I can hear the raucous calls of Galahs, Lorikeets and Sulphur-crested Cockatoos coming from high in the canopy. I swing the Nikon telephoto in a broad arc and eventually locate a lone Galah (Rose-breasted Cockatoo) gripping the trunk of a Stringy Bark Gum. On a grassy area near the…

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#Adelaide Hills #adelaide rosella #Aldgate #Bird watching #Church #galah #Golden Whistler #nature walk #South Australian birds #South Australian tourism #south australian travel #South Australian wildlife #wildlife photography

[aurorabayrpg]

Welcome to Aurora Bay [DEVIN AND PEACH]! We hope you enjoy your stay! Please send in your accounts within 24 hours to secure [JESSIE MEI LI AND SCOTT EASTWOOD] as your faceclaims, and please be sure to review our checklist!

[cisgender female she/her] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [OPHELIA CHU]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [JESSIE MEI LI]. You must be the [TWENTY FOUR] year old [BALLET DANCER]. Word is you’re [ALTRUISTIC] but can also be a bit [HARD HEADED] and your favorite song is [SHATTER ME BY LINDSEY STIRLING]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [SEABROOK QUARTER]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

[male and he/him] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [RALEIGH MONROE]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [SCOTT EASTWOOD]. You must be the [THIRTY-THREE] year old [CARPENTER]. Word is you’re [ADVENTUROUS] but can also be a bit [INSECURE] and your favorite song is [GRANITE BY SLEEP TOKEN]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [OCEAN CREST APARTMENTS]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

#oc rp #new rp #appless rp #group rp #town rp #plotless rp #beach rp #active rp #aurorabay.accepted

[sparklijam]

Stirling remained in the library, crying her eyes out.

Trollex: *enters the room, looking at her sadly before touching her shoulder* Ling…

#jamzask #jamangst #stirling the classical seatroll #stirling crest #trollex the techno troll #king trollex #twt trollex

[sparklistories]

Stirling is heard playing her violin. Dreamie rests next to her.

Malik was harvesting some herbs and berries when he heard the violin, he looks around before catches sight of Stirling.

Malik: Oh! Hello Miss Stirling!

#sparkli stories #sparkli rps #sparkli reblogs #stirling crest the hybrid

[newtonsheffield]

Any chance of getting some spicy royals content on this fine Sunday? After they’re married/during their engagement, I have a vision of them doing their events and then going back to palace and just like tearing each other’s clothes off and doing it on any and all available surfaces.

My friend, you understand the Royals vibe.

Their whole romance started because essentially they couldn't keep their hands off one another. That's not going to change when they're together, in fact, it makes it all a little worse. The young queen and her future husband are well known for probably being too in love.

Kate wasn't stupid, she knew what the entire country was saying about her when rumours of her relationship with Anthony started leaking from the palace as these things often did. And she supposed she was a good part to blame. People couldn't help but notice the Security that lined the corridor outside Anthony's flat, and really that meant there had to be someone of note inside, and there was, of course, the very public way Anthony had gone about things. It didn't take long for the rumours to start.

She called off the wedding for him

It was all arranged for publicity

The Queen Regent demanded she marry him if not Stirling

He's a traitor and so must she be.

It was vaguely amusing honestly, the idea that Mary of all people would be encouraging Kate to do anything to Anthony that wasn't punching him in the stomach. The palace PR team had practically begged her not to acknowledge Anthony publicly

"All due respect Your Highness, This will be a disaster." Jenkins had said, the bridge of his nose pinched in his fingers, barely 2 days into her relationship with Anthony,

Kate had bristled, "What are you suggesting, Mr Jenkins?"

"I'm suggesting, that publicly, Our new Queen has no consort, whatever you do in private is of course your own business."

Kate had frowned, "And what about when we get married." A small hiss escaped several people in the room and Kate had pretended not to see the way Mary stiffened beside her, plowing ahead. "Surely eventually I'll have to marry someone, what do you suggest then?"

And no one had really seemed to have an answer for her, which of course meant the answer was clear.

Hopefully you'll come to your senses before then!

But it hadn't been necessary in the end. Sophie had sent them to a primary school, and aided by a rather adorable Hyacinth Bridgerton, Kate and Anthony (Kathony as they'd been dubbed) had emerged as they country's new it couple. Requests poured in for comment, the were star crossed lovers people that certainly weren't supposed t fall in love but couldn't resist the pull. And allegedly, everyone could see it. Just from the way they looked at one another.

It seemed every day in those first few months blurry pictures emerged of them, Anthony's head resting on her shoulder on a street corner, Kate's legs wrapped around his waist as he carried her through the garden on his back, Anthony crowding her against a tree their lips nearly touching. It was relentless, and rather than sullying the image of the royal family, it seemed to make public opinion soar. Yes, their new queen was young, beautiful, and very much besotted with her grouchy boyfriend. It really was quite the narrative, and not very far from the truth. Before long reports of them slipping away at public events seemed to emerge, and this the palace could not abide.

"Kate, please, please do not sneak out of this event." Sophie was practically begging, looking sternly between her and Anthony. "I mean it, "I get it, you just got engaged, and it's adorable that you're so happy but Can we stay to the end of one event this month?"

"Ahh Sophie, when you look this good, lady's are bound to drag you behind a topiary animal for a quickie." Anthony had said, with that insufferable smirk on his face."

Kate had scoffed. "Won't be a problem, Sophie, Anthony won't be getting any for a while."

As it turns out, it was a problem. Before they'd even left the palace Kate was warm. Anthony had been sitting in the small living area attached to her suite by the time her styling team had finished flitting around her, and honestly, the sight of him made her mouth go dry.

He was wearing a light grey suit, the waistcoat of which had a light checked pattern through it, cut tightly across his broad shoulders, his red tie and pocket square in stark contrast. She didn't really need to look at them, she'd known before she even walked in what colour they would be, they always matched, Anthony insisted upon it. Insisted on her crest being neatly embroidered into them, and it was a little unflattering but it aways sent a little possessive thrill through her.

She'd cleared her throat and he'd looked up from his phone, smile already in place though it turned just slightly predatory at the sight of her.

"Well, well, your majesty, don't you look lovely this evening?" His fingertips had trailed over her bare back a little delightfully.

Kate had scoffed, her cheeks burning, "we promised hands to ourselves tonight."

Anthony laughed, "There's almost no way you're going to be able to manage that, Darling. I look delectable this evening."

God his arrogance was startling, even if he wasn't far off the mark. "You look average."

He wasn't deterred. "I'll make you a deal, Princess" She'd been the queen for months but he still called her by her original title, his eyes shining at her. "If we stay until 11:30, I'll give you a reward."

A shiver had run down her spine as she'd thought about last night when he'd bent her over the back of the sofa, his hands hot against her. "Won't be a problem. Prepare to get on your knees for me."

"It would be my pleasure."

By the time they'd been there an hour, Kate was struggling, Anthony's hand was hot on her back, his eyes burning into hers as he laughed and smiled, his glasses shining in the dim lighting, and it didn't help that she was sure the air conditioning was broken.

And he wouldn't leave her alone. Usually at these events after a while they were tugged in different directions, mingling with this lord and that, as directed by their teams. But tonight Anthony shrugged off all of his instructions, keeping his arm like a vice around her, the smell of his cologne a little overwhelming, his deep voice rumbling through the both of them, his finger tapping his watch every time her own hand slipped under his jacket or to the edge of his trousers, a stupid smirk on his face. God he was absolutely unbearable, and she wanted him so fucking much, but she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.

Her eyes didn't leave his watch from 11:28, counting down the seconds as they slipped by, clearing her throat as soon as 11:30 ticked around.

"Can you have the car brought around Steve?"

Anthony's smirk intensified into something like a wolfish grin as they waved once more to the assembled party before they slipped out the side doors.

"Well, Your majesty, very impressive restraint shown tonight." his voice was like gravel in her ear, both hands on her waist now, one on either side, his teeth already nipping at her neck, it was all she could do not to groan loudly.

As soon as the car door was opened, Kate had tugged Anthony inside, her hand wrapped around his tie, his hips bucking against her at the sharp tug she gave it.

"What are you doing?" Her own voice was rough as Anthony attempted to settle into the seat beside her, his eyebrows raised.

"Sitting down so we can go home and fuck?" There was something so innocent about the way he said it, that made her heart flutter with love for him, his hand fiddling nervously with his glasses.

Kate clucked her tongue, tugging on his tie until his knees were resting on the floor of the limousine in front of her. "But we have such a long drive home, Lord Bridgerton, you better get to work."

Anthony's eyes darkened immediately, his hands tugging roughly at the hem of her dress, calming as he slipped underneath it, his lips trailing up her thighs, hands forcing her legs apart.

"Fucking hell I wanted to crawl under this dress the minute I saw you, wanted to do it right there in that fucking room again."

Kate tried to force her voice into something like nonchalance, failing miserably as she shifted her hips a little desperately "Well it would have certainly given the Lords something to tut about, you know how they like that."

His chuckle was slight muffled through the layers of her dress. "They're just jealous, they don't get to have you."

And then his mouth started moving over her, hard and relentless, and fuck she couldn't breathe. The privacy partition was thankfully already up as it always was on the way home from events, but still, Kate knew the driver, and Steve who always rode in the front of her car could hear her, and there was something oddly thrilling about it. Oddly thrilling about the obscene noises that were pulled from her chest, about the soft sound of Anthony's mouth on her, the soft moans falling from his lips at the taste of her, his voice coaxing against her.

"That's it, Kate, you've been such a good girl for Daddy."

Her eyes rolled back in her head, unable to help herself as her hips bucked against him helplessly, desperately seeking just a little more friction.

"Please, Anthony, Please."

He chuckled again and then he started moving impossibly faster, his fingers joining his tongue, forcing her higher and higher, she could see the reflection of them in the window as the streetlights passed, th obscene image of them branded on the back of her eyelids, And everything shattered. A soft scream tore through her chest, Anthony humming happily in response as her chest heaved, her breathing erratic.

Anthony's head popped out from under her dress, checking his watch a little dramatically.

"Well that took 5 minutes so I think I can probably do that another 3 times before we get home."

He managed another 4, one rolling against the other like an endless wave, her screams getting louder and louder, condensation covering the windows in the back of the car. And Anthony's smug smile as he tugged her boneless from the car, really was absolutely insufferable.

#royals #spicy sunday🌶 #kathony #anthony x kate #anthony bridgerton #kate sheffield #kate sharma #molly's asks and answers

[atrollnamedlexi]

what are the oc's that you like from your friends on tumbr?

All the sharktrolls-@sparklijam

Shaila,Afton Lizzy and Sam soon- @elia-art-uwu

Shapeshifters, mostly Shadow- @nicholes-family-and-friends

Olaf, B.M, Blanc, Ellie, Fernyx- @xyuniconnijix (momma

Zues, Titan, and Serilda- @lasirenacanta

River, Lisa, Kendall, Savana,Honan- @ameliaongaku

Twana, Night, Anemone, Lazarith- @roshellow29

Stirling crest- @stormikaiiofspades

[avaford2009]

Emily & Palmon's Crest of Light Moodboard

#emily the stirling engine #palmon #togemon #lilymon #crest of light #pink rose #cactus with flower #pink flower #moodboard #digivice

[lalmohanpatnaik]

How did Cuttack deal with floods 1000 years ago?

Hidden in plain sight, below the ring road circling the Cuttack city on three sides, is an ancient landmark unknown to even most inhabitants.The Stone Revetment, an early 11th century protection wall, a unique engineered structure that was medieval India’s answer to frequent inundation during floods in rivers. An old adage in Odia runs - Kataka Chintah Baimundi Kuh (Baimundi’s concern for Cuttack). The story behind this saying goes that when Somavamsi King Markat Kesari was on a round riding his horse through his capital Baimundi stopped him and made a fervent appeal for saving Cuttack from the fury of floods that ravage the city year in and year out.The old man offered a bag of coins as his contribution for construction of a flood wall to protect the people of the city from inundations by flood waters of Mahanadi River and its tributary Kathajodi. 

Baimundi's plea moved the king to construct the Stone Revetment over 1000 years ago.The Somavamsi rulers shifted their capital from Tosali (present Bhubaneswar) to Cuttack after Nrupa Keshari founded it in 989 AD. But the new capital was soon found to be constantly inundated during high floods in the two rivers.To solve the problem sized block stones were used to build the massive flood wall and keep the rivers within their current channel.The stone revetment believed to have been constructed during Markat Keshari’s reign (1005-21 AD) was designed to be flood-resilient to provide protection to the city. Protecting the north side, the protection wall extended from Chahata up to Gadgadia on the right bank of Mahanadi and south side from Chahata up to Purighat via Satichaura along the left bank of Kathajodi.Considered to be a unique feat of the ancient engineering skill standing from the depth of water the gigantic stone revetment with subsequent refurbishments has defied the fury of floods for over thousand years now.

Andrew Stirling in his account of 1822 writes: “As an instance of rapid rise, it deserves to be recorded that during the heavy rains of 1817 the water of the Cajori rose in one night to height of 18 ft, as ascertained by the careful measurement. This immense volume of water which was then perhaps one and half mile in breadth by thirty- or forty-feet depth, over topped the general level of the town and station by a height of nearly six feet and was only restrained from overwhelming them by a solid embankment faced with stone and supported by buttresses, the work of former Governments”.From the account it is evident that the possibility of inundation by floods was effectively taken care of when the protection wall was constructed and buttressed during the reign of subsequent rulers.Short accounts of British Engineers shed some light on the condition of the structure and the steps taken during the British period for its repair.

Lieutenant John C Harris in a study of the devastating flood of the Kathajodi and Mahanadi rivers in 1855 submitted a report indicating the disastrous effect of flood on the Cuttack town and the suggested remedial measures.“The revetment may be described as an irregular line of masonry, partaking of character of a wall in some portions of a simple casting in others, constructed of large blocks of laterite and sandstone set in mud cement, and painted with lime plaster exteriorly the weight of its crest varying from 17 to 36 ft above the low waterline, and width at top and bottom respectively from 3 to 4 and 5 to 8 ft.”.“Upon what foundation this wall rests, is matter of the purest speculation at this day. It is not known in fact to have any foundations whatsoever, other than such as it has formed for itself by settlements, either gradual, owing to the action of gravity upon the loose soil beneath it, reduce as this is, during floods to a semi-fluid state or again bodily in the form of breaches after the subsidence of the waters”.

Evidently, Markata Keshari’s original stone revetment of Markat Keshari has been obscured due to repair, renovation and reconstruction during which the British officers used stone blocks from the dismantled ramparts of Barabati Fort and temple fragments.In fact, with protective works involving widening of the embankments by extending them into the river, both in the Mahanadi and Kathajodi faces and coming up of the ring road on it in the 1980s has covered most of the original stone revetment. Nevertheless, some stretches of original stone facing between Sati Chaura and Chahata and between Chhata and Gadgadia can still be seen.

#cuttack #history #ancient #floods

[scotianostra]

Bruce and de Bohun, were fightin’ for the croon,/ Bruce taen his battle-axe and knocked de Bohun doon.

You just have to google “Bruce and de Bohun” in images and you’ll find scores of hits for depictions of the scene setter for this two day battle.

Day One.

It was the chance of a lifetime and Sir Henry de Bohun knew it. Even before the battle began he could win immortal fame by killing or capturing the Scottish king, Robert Bruce.

Sir Henry was with a group of young English knights who were riding up a hill towards the enemy, impatient to force a fight, and he was at the very front of them. Ahead he could see a lone figure in chain mail on a small grey horse. The rider had an axe in his hand and on his helmet, which was covered by a leather crest, was a high crown. 

The English knight did not hesitate, riding straight at the great king, his lance at the ready. A second before the tip of the lance could hit him, Bruce pulled his horse to one side, then, as the Englishman drew level with him, he stood in his stirrups and, with a huge sweep of his axe, brought the blade down so ferociously that it cut clean through Sir Henry de Bohun’s helmet and split his head in two. So fierce was the blow that Bruce was left with only the stump of the shaft of the axe in his hand, for the impact had shattered it. Sir Henry lay dead on the ground. 

A mighty roar went up from the watching Scots. The king’s men and his top advisors scolded him for allowing himself to be placed in such danger. “Bethink you, Sire, the fate of all Scotland rests upon you,” they said. The king had other concerns on his mind. “I have broken my good axe,” was all he said, “I have broken my good axe.” And so our warrior King had sewn his place in Scottish history.

The scene was set for the greatest defeat ever suffered by the English in Scotland. It was Bannockburn, the date was June 23rd 1314.

King Robert I was an excellent tactician, he had already showed his military abilities at the battle of Loudoun Hill (1307), where he was all to beat back a much larger English force led by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. As mentioned before, the Scottish army was outnumbered and in many respects, out matched by the cavalry based English force, forcing the Scots to consider how and most importantly, where the inevitable battle would take place.

By the morning of 23rd June, Robert had arrived near the village of Bannock, a small hamlet on the edge off the Bannock Burn stream, surrounded by woods and hills. the village was just a few short miles away from Stirling and would be where the Scottish army would make their last stand. Robert positioned his men on the edge of the forest in the rear, to protect his flanks from cavalry and ordered his men dig trenches filled with traps to confuse and funnel the expected cavalry charge. The Scottish army were organised into four main battles (the word ‘battle’ originally meant formation) of tightly packed Schiltrons, the Scottish equivalent of a phalanx, thousands of pikes bristling out facing the oncoming enemy.

As was expected, the English army approached in all pomp and chivalric spender, led by its fearsome heavy cavalry. Seeing the large force, Robert ordered his men to retreat into the woods before again ordering them to turn and face the oncoming cavalry that was by now, charging head on into the Scottish lines. Led by the Earl of Hereford, the cavalry smashed head first into the Scottish lines with disastrous consequences. The traps set by the Scottish forces had successfully funnelled the English onto the waiting spears, with men and horse Impaled on the wall of pikes unable to be relieved due to the traps and trenches now behind them. The Earl of Gloucester, Gilbert de Claire, was sent around the flank to try and hit the Schiltrons on the side but Edward Bruce was able to move his men into position on his brothers left side, Covering the attack from the Earl, forcing the English to retreat back to their original positions at the Burn.

In the lager scale of things the English army didn’t take many losses on the first day but, the lack of progress made by the cavalry, acted as a serious moral hit for Edward and the English forces. Edward and his swollen army began to set up camp spread out around bannock itself, ready to take the fight to the Scots the next day.

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Reveal: The Ecurie Ecosse C-type 

 In 1952 a young Ian Stewart, pioneer driver for Ecurie Ecosse, would visit Jaguar Cars in Coventry to collect his brand-new C-type. He would drive the car to its first race on Jersey to confront stiff competition from Aston Martin and Frazer Nash. The race was won at a gallop and in doing so he opened the first chapter in Ecurie Ecosse’s international motor racing career.

Considerable success on the racetrack ensued for Ecurie Ecosse, their trophy cabinet bursting at the seams with 59 podium places secured across the seven C-type chassis raced by the team. Through clever tuning by legendary team manager ‘Wilkie’ Wilkinson and meticulous planning by founder David Murray, they proved how capable the Jaguar C-type could be on the international stage and began a legacy that would take the Scottish national team to countless wins, including their crowning glory at La Sarthe.

The Jaguar C-type was a technological masterpiece. The first race car honed in the wind tunnel, first to use fuel ‘bag’ tanks (a technology borrowed from the aviation world) and the test bed for Dunlop’s revolutionary disc brakes. A steel spaceframe chassis formed the rigid backbone of these cars, clad in a lightweight, thin-gauge, streamlined aluminum body designed by Malcolm Sayer and powered by a silky smooth Jaguar ‘overhead cam’ straight-six engine. Stirling Moss once said: “I always really rated the C-type – for me it was a far better car than the D.”

Ecurie Ecosse have created a new car to pay homage to their past success. Current Ecurie Ecosse patron Alasdair McCaig said of their new car: “How better to celebrate the historic success of the Ecurie Ecosse C-types than to manufacture a batch of cars in their honor? The seven priceless chassis raced in period still exist today, coveted by their lucky owners, occasionally seeing the light of day for race or concours events. We are paying homage to these cars by creating a numbered sister car to each one. Meticulous in their detail, like their forebears, hand-built in Coventry and tuned by Ecurie Ecosse technicians.”

Ecurie Ecosse have retained all the key elements that contributed to the roaring success of the 1950s Jaguar racer while, in the true spirit of co-founder ‘Wilkie’ Wilkinson, making considered improvements. The aerodynamic shape remains, still crafted from thin-gauge aluminum alloy and mounted to a steel spaceframe chassis, but wider and stiffer than before, laser-cut for accuracy. The sonorous Jaguar straight-six XK engine remains too, although capacity has been increased to 4.2 liters and fuel injection fitted to bring power up to 300bhp.

The suspension and disc brakes have been uprated to cope with the additional performance and a five-speed gearbox added to maximize acceleration and top speed. The detail of the car is breath-taking, with the hand-crafted aluminum bucket seats clothed in supple blue leather by Crest, hand-airbrushed Ecurie Ecosse shields adorning the car’s flanks, and Tag Heuer ‘Master Time’ stopwatches on the dashboard. The first car is complete and available for viewing and test drive at their Henley-on-Thames dealership, Hofmann’s.

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