Isle of Skye

Looking at brochs

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Along with their mesmerising yet inexplicable carvings, the Picts left us another legacy: brochs. These impressive buildings were …
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BRITISH TREES
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow
  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?
  • The spirit of the alder
  • The wisdom of the oak
SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Skipness Castle and Kilbrannan Chapel
  • Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard
  • Falkland Palace: power and glory
  • Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart
MEGALITHIC
  • The Devil’s Arrows: shafts of darkness
  • Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar
  • Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen
  • The stones of Kilmory Oib
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour
  • St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore
  • Kelso Abbey: piety and pride
  • Holyrood Abbey
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