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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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    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    Birdsong and light

    January 31, 2026

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016
  • 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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    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015
  • 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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    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015
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