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  • Castle Sween: still watching for the sails

    June 13, 2013 /

    Dreaming of times gone by, this wonderful 12th-century castle looks out over Loch Sween and the Sound of Jura.

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    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014

    Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016

    Orkney: the Ring of Brodgar

    December 21, 2024
  • Dunnottar: the last bastion

    October 1, 2012 /

    Occupying a clifftop with perfect natural defences, Dunnottar has sea views to die for... and roots that stretch back into the realms of prehistory. If its story doesn't take your breath away, the North Sea wind certainly will!

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    A walk to Barnakill

    October 9, 2021

    Walking to the Field of the Heads

    July 10, 2018

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021
  • 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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    Rock art at Cairnbaan

    June 28, 2020

    The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

    September 15, 2025

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016
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