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  • 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

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014
  • Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

    Sueno’s Stone

    April 19, 2023

    The stones of Kilmory Oib

    May 26, 2015
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Looking at crannogs

    April 21, 2014
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