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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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    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016
  • 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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    Castle Dounie

    March 26, 2021

    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023
  • 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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    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015

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