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  • Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on

    August 16, 2012 /

    This island fortress has seen more than its fair share of horrible murders, even by Scottish standards; Castle Stalker's stage name of 'The Castle of Aaargh' is actually very fitting!

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    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013
  • Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012 /

    From their high vantage point overlooking Oban Bay and the Firth of Lorn, the former occupants of Dunollie Castle must have scanned the horizon anxiously for Viking longships.

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    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020

    Gylen Castle and the Brooch of Lorn

    June 14, 2023
  • Dunyvaig Castle, Isle of Islay

    January 9, 2012 /

    From a high vantage point, the crumbling remains of this medieval fortress overlook Lagavulin Bay on the south-east coast of Islay.

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    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017
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