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  • The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013 /

    Dunnichen, Dun Nechtain, Nechtansmere - take your pick (or should that be Pict?) We don't know where this battle took place, but we know one thing: the Picts were delighted with the outcome!

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    The Lerags Cross

    July 2, 2017

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016
  • 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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    The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

    September 15, 2025

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014
  • 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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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015
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