Castle - Bottle Dungeon
The entrance to the Bottle Dungeon is
in the north west section of the castle courtyard. There are a
couple of steps down, but it is essentially at ground level.
The bottle dungeon, in the North West (Sea)
Tower of the castle, was a rather ominous
pit of imprisonment. Hewn from solid rock in the late 14th century,
it takes its name from the narrow, and only entrance/exit in the
floor of this room, dropping 24 feet to the floor of the dungeon
below. The circular wall in this room, looking like the well in
the courtyard, is a later addition for the safety of visitors,
and forms a "neck" on the bottle. It is entirely possible
that the martyr Patrick
Hamilton was confined here in 1528,
and George Wishart
in 1546.
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