Caithness-shire - Freswick Castle. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Freswick Castle is a medieval tower house standing on the coast of Cithness near Wick. It was built on the site of a previous Viking settlement, probably by Hugh Ross of Balnagowan, who acquired the site in 1361. It was subsequently in the hands of the Mowatt and then the Sinclair families from c1410 to 1948. It remains privately owned, but can be hired for weddings, conferences and other events. This print was engraved by Eastgate.