history – Page 56 – The Hazel Tree

Inveraray Cross

August 30, 2013 /

For any visitor to Inveraray, the glorious castle steals the show - but it's worth taking time to look at this lovely old relic from an age that is lost.

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Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time
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The secrets of St Cormac
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The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester
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The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

August 7, 2013 /

It's 1580, you're in an advancing army and you see the MacLeods on the other side start to unfurl their Fairy Flag. What do you do? You run!

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Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library
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Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave
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History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn
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Dunvegan Castle

August 6, 2013 /

This fortress on Skye's north-west coast has stood guard over MacLeod lands for nearly 750 years; and it contains some spellbinding treasures!

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Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’
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A little chapel in Ballachulish
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Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag
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