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  • Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017 /

    Remembering a fateful day in Scotland's history, this is one of the most evocative places I've ever been

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    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016

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

    November 22, 2019
  • 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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    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015

    Duart Castle, Isle of Mull

    September 1, 2011

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015
  • Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014 /

    Over 300 years ago, the Pass of Killiecrankie was the setting for a desperate battle in the first Jacobite uprising. Visitors may still experience a sense of sorrow - and perhaps more besides...

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    Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016

    Kilberry: sculptured stones and an enduring mystery

    November 17, 2013

    Gylen Castle and the Brooch of Lorn

    June 14, 2023
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