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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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    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 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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    Deer carvings at Dunchraigaig

    September 13, 2023

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022

    Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 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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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 2014

    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015
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