Randolphs Leap, on the Findhorn, Forres

Category

Library Item

Item no

24461

Title

Randolphs Leap, on the Findhorn, Forres

Description

A river runs through two banks of sheer rock which sit to either side of it. In the background trees and the sandy bank of the river are visible.visable.

Artist / maker

Valentine, James

Date

1865

Size

18.0 x 11.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Randolph's Leap, is a bank of rocks which overhang the River Findhorn, in the Moray region of Scotland. The name Randolph's Leap is given to the point where the rocks are most closely situated together and folklore has it that a clansman from the Clan Comyns was being chased by the Chief of the Clan Randolph when he leaped the river at this point and escaped to Comyn Castle. Eventually the castle fell to the Randolph clan and the name of the point from which the man jumped, changed from Comyn's Leap to Randolph's Leap.

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Landscape > Land > Rocks

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