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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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    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    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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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012
  • 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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    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020

    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011
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