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  • Nether Largie: secrets in stone

    October 2, 2013 /

    Neither a circle nor a row, the arrangement of stones at Nether Largie in Argyll is puzzling in the extreme. What were our ancestors thinking... and why were they so keen on carving those little cup shapes?

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    July 31, 2011

    The brochs of Glenelg

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    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

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  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    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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    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018
  • Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013 /

    On the far north-western shores of the British Isles, this Iron Age broch stands guard over secrets that are lost to time...

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    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014

    Doune Castle: seat of power

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    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015
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