What is recorded here
Saltmarket and tollbooth tower is a castle, fort or tower in Glasgow City, Scotland. Perhaps merchants paid coins at its base before carrying salt sacks into the city. Maybe the tower watched for thieves or marked the boundary where rural roads became urban streets. Imagine a guard calling out wagon weights while rain soaked his cloak.
A named place photographed at this map point in Glasgow City.
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Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0