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  • Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015 /

    The ancient seat of the Douglas Earls of Angus, Tantallon Castle tells a story of power, violence and treason. Most visitors didn't bring a picnic - they brought guns!

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    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

    August 21, 2022

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015
  • Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag

    August 14, 2014 /

    What is an English-sounding name like Athelstaneford doing in eastern Scotland? And what does it have to do with our national flag?

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    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen

    April 25, 2016

    The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

    September 15, 2025
  • Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014 /

    Sitting on the quiet main street of Falkland in Fife is one of the most remarkable Scottish castles, brainchild of the brilliant but ill-fated Stewart kings

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    Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015

    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013

    Deer carvings at Dunchraigaig

    September 13, 2023
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