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

    November 22, 2019 /

    Old legends lie soft as cobwebs across this landscape of cairns and standing stones

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    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015

    Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013
  • Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound

    July 26, 2019 /

    Not another chambered cairn! Yes, but this one comes with a twist...

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    The old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

    October 17, 2025

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018

    A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014
  • Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018 /

    How much history is held in a place-name? Quite a lot, if this story attached to a rock on the shore of Loch Feochan is to be believed...

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    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015

    Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on

    August 16, 2012

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019
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