The Castle of Leys (2)
When you go looking for it, which is definitely easier by drone than on foot, the island on which the Burnetts built their first castle is quite easy to identify.  Despite a long hot summer (by Scottish standards), this was evidently the only bit of dry ground in the vicinity!

In the 1850s, Sir James Horn Burnett, 10th Baronet of Leys started excavating his ancestral homesite and established that the island was a crannog, or artificial island, composed of layers of clay, brushwood, sand and stone, with oak piles to retain the material in place. 
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