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Castle Dounie

March 26, 2021
Breathtaking views from this Iron Age hill fort in Knapdale
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Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

February 11, 2018
With sweeping views across the sea from the Craignish peninsula, this hill fort seems to be half-immersed in legend
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Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

May 03, 2013
When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be …
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I'm honoured to be Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. This book celebrates the lives of 50 great explorers......
BRITISH TREES
  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?
  • The majesty of the beech
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow
  • The Scots pine: keeper of the forest
SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Smailholm Tower
  • Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl
  • Duart Castle, Isle of Mull
  • Blackness Castle
MEGALITHIC
  • Prehistoric rock art at Achnabreck
  • The stones of Kilmory Oib
  • Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’
  • Standing stone near Loch Ederline
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow
  • St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
  • Cambuskenneth Abbey
  • St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick
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