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  • Orkney: the Brough of Birsay

    October 30, 2023 /

    A windswept island off the north-west tip of mainland Orkney, once a power-centre of Pictish and Norse culture

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    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015
  • The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019 /

    Memories of Viking longships haunt this tiny island of windswept sandy bays and cryptic stones

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    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013
  • Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018 /

    900 years ago, Magnus Barefoot saw this quiet harbour as a means to an end...

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    Orkney: the Earl’s Bu and some eventful Christmas feasts

    December 14, 2023

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014
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