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Autumn

Foulis Castle, Scotland

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  • Distant view of Foulis, described by a visitor in the eighteenth century as "quite Elysian, a most charming site…and may truly be termed a Princely Seat."
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  • One of a pair of nineteenth century eagle gate piers at the entrance to the castle, indicating its status as the headquarters of a chief
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  • A row of antique room bells still mounted on the wall
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  • A knife sharpener, teapot and two saws are among the variety of objects on a cupboard in the basement kitchen
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  • The eighteenth century kitchen with its original table
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  • The vast kitchen, paved with a stone flagged floor still retains its original 18th century table
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  • Vintage stock cube tins on display in the kitchen
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  • Hector Munroe's highland bonnet, sporting his chief's eagle feathers
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  • A collection of oil lamps on a window sill. Even after electricity was installed in the castle in the 1970s, Pat Munro's mother, clan chief until 1937, continued to use gas lamps for a year afterwards
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  • An old enamel kettle labelled 'hot water' on display in the kitchen
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  • A well used marble pestle and mortar in the kitchen
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  • The dining room is hung with family portraits, which, following their dispersal in the mid-nineteenth century, have gradually been reassembled
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  • An early 19th century group portrait hangs above the dining room fireplace
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  • An Augustan personality
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  • A Munro family portrait
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  • A Jacobite period portait of a militatry Munro clad wearing an armour breast plate
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  • One of the Munro ladies from the past, displayed at Foulis Castle
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  • Variations of the Munros' Presbyterian motto, "Dread God," found throughout the house
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  • Munros' haind-painted coat of arms on one of the plates displayed in the drawing room china cabinet
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  • A collection of antique china baring the Munro coat of arms in the drawing room cabinet
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  • The drawing room, originally the ballroom, is graced with a classical cornice. The painting above the fireplace, Shuttleback adn Diver, is attributed to Benjamin Marshall. The Portuguese carpet was paid for by American clansman Malcom Munroe, son of the manufacturer of the first calculating machines
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  • Different generations of female members of the Munro family displayed on the drawing room wall
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  • Detail of the Jacobean style floral pattern on a wing-backed chair in the drawing room
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  • The 31st chief, Sir Hector Munro, who moved back into the house with his wife, Violet, beginning its rehabilitation
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  • A Dutch marquetry armchair stands below a portrait in the drawing room
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  • A spacious living room lit with three Georgian sash windows
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  • Victorian fancy and military dress. The Munros have been fearsome warriors: Sir Robert Munro, killed at the 1746 battle of Falkirk, was the first commander of the Black Watch regiment
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  • A Munro in tartan military dress
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  • Victorian fancy dress portraits abound at Foulis Castle
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  • A studio portrait of Munro's in country dress
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  • Victorian chief Sir Hector Monro sharing a glass or two with a friend
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  • The Great Seal of James VI of Scotland & I of England, dated 1615, one of many such documents in the muniment room
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  • The Munros' staunch Presbyterian motto, "Dread God"
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  • A water colour and pencil drawing of the Munros' coat of arms with their Presbyterian motto, "Dread God"
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  • The family portraits hang on the walls of the eighteenth century staircase in the post-1745 wing of the house
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  • A collection of family portraits lead up the stairs from the entrance hall
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  • Kilts woven in the traditional Munro tartan spread over a four-poster bed
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  • A Munro tartan kilt
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  • A Munro kilt with leather sporran decorated with a silver Munro eagle
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  • Another type of Munro tartan which is woven of different hues of red, yellow and green
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  • A basket-hilted broadsword
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  • A Munro of the late 19th century sporting the traditional family kilt and sporran
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  • A family photograph of the Victorian generation of Munros sitting in the garden
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  • An 1897 curling match with a fine array of beards, moustaches, and bonnets
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  • Late 15th century "keyhole" gun loop, uncovered in a courtyard storeroom wall
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  • Curling, like golf, was invented by Scots. A row of 1890s Victorian stones in their original panniers at Foulis
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  • The asymmetrical courtyard elevation. The longer, west (right-hand) wing was rebuilt in 1750-54 as a ballroom after the Jacobite burning
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  • The courtyard is flanked by outbuildings that originally housed services such as the laundry, dairy, and bakehouse
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  • Sweeping view of Foulis's barley fields with the Cromarty Firth in the distance
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  • The south elevation. The elegant ironwork, double-staircase, and first-floor doorway were added by Sir Hugo Monro about 1797
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  • Trees in their autumn leaf line the pathway towards Foulis Castle
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