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  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

    Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, Melrose still has an air of faded opulence

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    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 2023
  • 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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    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 2023

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

    August 15, 2021
  • 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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    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019

    Fraser’s Bridge in Glen Clunie

    October 4, 2013

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016
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