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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 Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019
  • 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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    Dun Carloway broch, Isle of Lewis

    January 10, 2013

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 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

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

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