Claws

Makes me think of Wizard's Chess - the aftermath. :-)

the previous pic was of this ones eastern side?
I am so into this!

I bet this place looks great at dusk or dawn... or winter and fall... I'd like to see it at all times on all seasons.

http://www.bannermancastle.org/photogallery.htm

Totally Goth! I love it!!!

Must say, the banerman photo gallery don't do justice to Mr. Motts! Thank you all the same : )

MY GRANDFATHER USED TO KNOW THE CARETAKER OF THIS PLACE AND MY FATHER AND UNCLE USED TO PLAY HERE AS KIDS - THEY SAID THERE WAS STILL AMMO LYING AROUND.

I beleive it.

Lovely, lovely picture. It almost looks like it was taken in Europe somewhere.

Arsenal Man I would Have Lived There

What a amazing place it's trully tragic that it has wasted away. You hardly ever see such lovely stone work on ths side of the pond.

this picture makes me feel lost in the ages

I can live there...even today. Wow.

it looks amazing.

if only somone would rebuild it.

@ Island Hopper:
Indeed, munitions were scattered all over the islans as a result of the explosions. I have found with a metal detector, very large (roughly 2 inch diameter) torn, exploded WWI-era brass shell casings of French manufacture on the west side of the island, and others unexploded, though corroded through, buried in the soil. I imagine there may be other unexploded ordnance buried, so if you were to poke around, you ought to be quite careful.

In the main arsenal structure, the floors above had collapsed filling the building with rubble and destroyed munitions. the whole of this rubble fills what would have been the first couple of levels, with four more visible as scars rising up the walls.The brick rubble you encounter as you enter represents the remains of the ceiling and top floor; this was where small arms and ammunition were kept and many pieces of these may be found. Many years ago I collected quite a number of flintlock hammers and plates, breeches, triggers and other hardware from various arms, and in one colossal find in a deep dig, I found a whole bundle of bayonnette sheaths fused together from the heat of the fire. Turning over bricks and masonry here will yield many blobs of molten lead pooled and solidified amongst the debris.
Cannons were kept in the lower holds, and there is said to be a large cache of heavy weaponry still buried beneath the several floors worth of rubble now heaped inside.
As a youth I had designs of uncovering such treasure, but the rubble is very thick and hard packed, and would require major excavation... much more than a teen with a trowel and a metal detector could handle. :-)