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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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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015
  • 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 Mary’s College in St Andrews

    September 23, 2014

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020
  • 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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    Torphichen Preceptory

    April 15, 2015

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

    November 22, 2019

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015
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