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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 Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    A morning in Kilmartin Glen

    March 17, 2018

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 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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    Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound

    July 26, 2019

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014

    Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014
  • 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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    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023

    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017
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