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  • Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

    These impressive buildings were designed to last - but what were they used for?

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015
  • 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 secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014

    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013
  • 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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    Deer carvings at Dunchraigaig

    September 13, 2023

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020
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