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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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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016
  • 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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    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023
  • 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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    The brochs of Glenelg

    March 16, 2025

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

    August 21, 2022
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