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  • Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018 /

    How much history is held in a place-name? Quite a lot, if this story attached to a rock on the shore of Loch Feochan is to be believed...

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    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015

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

    August 15, 2021

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015
  • Dunadd: behold the king!

    June 14, 2015 /

    This low rocky hill in the south of Kilmartin Glen was once the setting for royal ceremonies that shaped the history of Scotland

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    The stone circles of Fortingall

    May 11, 2014

    Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach

    July 13, 2022

    Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 2023
  • Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014 /

    What links this quiet glen in Argyll with the sacred island of Iona? The answer lies in the passing of Scotland's kings...

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    Beauly Priory

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    April 4, 2026

    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016
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