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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South
I’ve said this before, and I’m sure you’ll forgive me for saying it again: Kilmartin Glen is an absolute joy. I’ve already written about the standing stones at Ballymeanoch and Nether Largie, the...
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Culross Abbey
Just a short walk up the hillside from the brilliance and the opulence of Culross Palace lies an intriguing pile of ruins, watched over by a parish church. It’s a lovely, peaceful place, undisturbed...
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The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester
Some of the churches in Perthshire contain the most extraordinary things. I discovered this a while back, in the little village of Dunning; and it was confirmed again last weekend, when I stepped...
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Tullibardine Chapel
Shaded by Scots pines, Tullibardine Chapel stands in the middle of quiet farmland. A rare survival from the time before the Reformation, it was founded in 1446 by Sir David Murray of nearby...
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Innerpeffray: Scotland’s oldest free lending library
“I have erected a Library… which I appoint and ordain to be preserved entire… for the benefit and encouragement of young students…” David Drummond If somebody asked me where was the oldest free...
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The Lewis Chessmen
In April 1831, a curious collection of carved figures was exhibited to members of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. They had been found earlier that year, on a beach near Uig on the Isle of...
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Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne
One of the tallest ash trees I’ve seen hangs its branches over the graveyard of Kilmorie Chapel. The leaves whisper as they scatter the sunlight into a thousand fragments, and the grass beneath is...
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Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss
April 1746 was a cruel month in the history of the Highlands. Over a thousand men lay dead on Culloden Moor, their lives a sacrifice to the broken dream of Prince Charles Edward Stewart. Little mercy...
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Smailholm Tower
Smailholm Tower rises above the rolling landscape of the Scottish Borders like a silent sentinel. We’ve glimpsed it on many occasions but just recently, on a lovely day in late October, we drove right...
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Melrose Abbey
It’s not often that a tree steals the show at a majestic place like Melrose Abbey, but that’s what happened last October when we ventured down to the Scottish Borders. There it was, grabbing our...
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