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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019
  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

    Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, Melrose still has an air of faded opulence

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    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound

    July 26, 2019

    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013

    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 2015
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