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  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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

    November 22, 2019

    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    Tantallon – a ring of truth?

    February 1, 2015
  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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    The fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016
  • 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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    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019
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