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  • Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

    May 2, 2021

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    Orkney: the Ring of Brodgar

    December 21, 2024
  • Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 2023

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015
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