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  • Craig Phadrig and its kings

    March 6, 2026 /

    This vitrified hill fort may have been the stronghold of Bridei, king of the Picts

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    January 24, 2016

    Sueno’s Stone

    April 19, 2023

    Rock art at Cairnbaan

    June 28, 2020
  • Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018 /

    With sweeping views across the sea from the Craignish peninsula, this hill fort seems to be half-immersed in legend

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    The Treshnish Isles

    July 5, 2021

    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016
  • 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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    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

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    The Tuilyies stones

    October 25, 2015

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