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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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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 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 Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016
  • 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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    Calanais

    June 29, 2025

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019
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