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The Battle of Dunnichen
Dunnichen, Dun Nechtain, Nechtansmere - take your pick (or should that be Pict?) We don't know where this battle took place, but we know one thing: the Picts were delighted with the outcome!
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Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite
According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!
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Dun Beag: hilltop fortress
When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.
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