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  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.

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  • Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013 /

    On the far north-western shores of the British Isles, this Iron Age broch stands guard over secrets that are lost to time...

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  • Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012 /

    Who were the Picts? Where did they come from, what did they believe, and why did they disappear? And what on earth do their curious carvings represent? Sorry, I can't really answer any of these questions!

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