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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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    Loch Dochart Castle

    March 5, 2015

    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014

    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022
  • 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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    From the River Awe to Loch Etive

    November 21, 2025

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024

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

    August 15, 2021
  • 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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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
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