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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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    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022

    Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013

    Calanais

    June 29, 2025
  • 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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    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    The mystery of the Kilchoan Cross

    February 27, 2013
  • 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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    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013

    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013
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