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  • Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023 /

    Founded in 1137, this magnificent building preserves the bones of a saint who was originally a Norse earl of Orkney

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    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015
  • Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 2023 /

    A windswept island off the north-west tip of mainland Orkney, once a power-centre of Pictish and Norse culture

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014
  • In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023 /

    According to tradition, this graveyard in Argyll once had quite an unusual guardian

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    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
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