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    The “Nine Worthies” on the Oak Heads Medallions at Stirling Castle?

    Mairiuna, here’s an important element for our Scottish studies: Dr Sally Rush, senior lecturer from the History of Art department at Glasgow’s University has found a link between the Nine Worthies and the medallion-shaped Oak profiles adorning the Scottish Stirling Castle King’s Presence Chamber!

    Dr Rush has dug deep into arts, crafts, fashions, politics and iconography [...]

    Earliest Example of Written Music Discovered in Scottish Stirling Castle

    Upon viewing a documentary on TV about the medieval harp, master carver John Donaldson sprung off his seating when he heard narrator mention that in earlier historical periods, zero’s and one’s were utilized to form music descriptives.
    This fact would explain the particular pattern of one of the oak wooden medallion-shaped that he was [...]