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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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    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023
  • Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019 /

    On a windswept hillside in Ardnamurchan, this ancient grave is linked in local lore with a Viking ruler

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    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016
  • The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015 /

    It's hard to believe that Govan, in the centre of Glasgow, was once the heart of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde. These extraordinary stones are all we have left - but what on earth do they represent?

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    White frost and winter light

    December 16, 2022

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

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