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October 2, 2002 - Guards At Entrance of Stirling Castle
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This image is taken from a vintage stereoscope view card #2648 (series no. 196) produced by the Keystone View Company. 
Entitled "Guards at Entrance to Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland", the back of the card features a lengthy description of the history of the scene shown which reads in part, "In all Scotland there is no castle more intimately associated with the history and romance of "the leal northern land" than Stirling, and there is probably no costume better known in the English-speaking world than that of the Highlands of Scotland. The actual origin of Stirling Castle is lost in the mists of antiquity, but it was certainly standing in 1125, when the Scottish king, Alexander I, died within its walls. The colossal statue of Robert the Bruce can be seen upon the esplanade."
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