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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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    The Stone of Scone

    July 12, 2012

    From the River Awe to Loch Etive

    November 21, 2025

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013
  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

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

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    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023

    Torphichen Preceptory

    April 15, 2015
  • 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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    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023
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