Bucholie Castle (Scotland)

1140 - The notorious pirate and thief Svein Aliefson builds a fortress called Lambaborg on the site.

1152-Svein is besieged in his castle by Count Rognvald whose displeasure he has sustained. Svein's henchmen had killed a prominent local in a rent dispute. The nobleman's son had complained to the count that he arrives with strong force to arrest Svein. Svein refuses to hand over his personal henchman, Margad, to the justice of the Counts and secures himself and his sixty men in the castle. When his supplies are nearly exhausted, he and his companion in arms, Margad Grimson, descend into the sea from the thirty-foot-high castle rock by means of a rope and then both swim along the shore to save themselves to escape the Earl.

1427 - The Mowat of Bucholie, builders of the castle, together with their followers, are burned to death in the chapel of St Duthac in Tain by MacNeil of Creich.

1661 - The castle is sold by the Mowat family to the Sinclairs. From this moment the abandoned castle falls into disrepair