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by Jo Woolf

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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Rosslyn Castle – falling shadows

    April 1, 2016

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014
  • Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019

    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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