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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Rock art at Ormaig

    October 18, 2018

    Dunnottar: the last bastion

    October 1, 2012
  • 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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    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020

    A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014

    Gylen Castle and the Brooch of Lorn

    June 14, 2023
  • 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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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015
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