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  • Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015 /

    The ancient seat of the Douglas Earls of Angus, Tantallon Castle tells a story of power, violence and treason. Most visitors didn't bring a picnic - they brought guns!

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    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012
  • Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 2014 /

    Hidden from sight until you've almost fallen into it, this amazing feature is carved into the rock below Tantallon Castle.

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    The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

    September 15, 2025

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019
  • A surprise find on Seacliff beach

    August 13, 2014 /

    The beach below Tantallon Castle is full of fascinating rocks… and this has to be one of my best finds ever!

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    Celestine: crystals as blue as the sky

    April 19, 2014

    Glen Orchy – an old bridge, a magical stone and some desperate frogs

    December 29, 2014

    Coastal relics from the last Ice Age

    April 14, 2014

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