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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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    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012
  • 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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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen

    March 13, 2016
  • 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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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    White frost and winter light

    December 16, 2022

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
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