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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 Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023
  • 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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    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016

    Culross Palace

    June 14, 2016
  • Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015 /

    Breathtaking medieval architecture… and a delicious story of a phantom wedding guest

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    Orkney: the Earl’s Bu and some eventful Christmas feasts

    December 14, 2023

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016
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