Clan Gordon - Auchindoun Castle - Photo Print MacLeod George Buchanan (1506-82) became one

George Buchanan (1506-82) became one of the foremost Latin scholars in 16th-century Europe

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and held this territory for centuries following the grant of Lennox lands to their founding ancestor

there is something satisfying about a place that simply announces it

were at the heart of it

Clan Gordon - Auchindoun Castle - Photo Print MacLeod George Buchanan (1506-82) became onePhotographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Auchindoun Castle, a fifteenth century tower on a hilltop above the Fiddich valley in Moray. The Gordons took possession of it in 1535, adding this commanding high ground to the network of strongholds that made them the most powerful family in north east Scotland. They were known across the region as "Cock o' the North," a title that reflected the reach of their influence from Aberdeenshire into Moray and