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

    August 15, 2021

    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018
  • 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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    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    White frost and winter light

    December 16, 2022
  • Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014
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