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Amanda Moffet
The real treasure of Rosslyn Chapel
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Rosslyn Chapel is famous for appearing in Hollywood blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, as the last resting place of the Holy Grail. The chapel has always been shrouded in legend, mainly concerning hidden...
Topics: Rosslyn Chapel
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Nadine Lee
Braveheart Impersonator Charged With Firearms Offences
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Adam Watters – Braveheart Impersonator. Photo courtesy of Deadline News A Braveheart impersonator has been charged with firearms offences after police received a complaint about “a man with a blue fac...
Topics: braveheart, edinburgh, Jacobite, Police, William Wallace
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Nadine Lee
Learn to Speak Norn For Only £120
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A dictionary of an extinct language spoken only in the remote Scottish Highlands has been uncovered in an English charity shop. The two-volume Norn Dictionary was anonymously donated to the Willow Bu...
Topics: language, norn, Norse, northern isles, Orkney, Shetland
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Nadine Lee
Asterix Weighs in on Independence Debate
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Inspired by the Scottish independence debate, the latest Asterix adventure sees the comic book hero travel to Iron Age Scotland where he meets the Picts. Author Jean Yves-Ferri explained that the sto...
Topics: Asterix, Iron Age Scotland, Picts, Scottish independence
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Nadine Lee
Poem Marks Bannockburn Anniversary
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Rotunda Monument at the Bannockburn Battleground A new poem has been unveiled to mark the upcoming 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. The specially commissioned poem appears on a new t...
Topics: Bannockburn, Bannockburn Live 2014, Poetry, Robert the Bruce, Rotunda Monument
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Nadine Lee
The Duchess and I
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery Frieze As you enter the main hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 150 titans of Scottish history gaze down at you, providing a dramatic introduction to...
Topics: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, Castle Gordon, edinburgh, General Cornwallis, Gordon Highlanders, Island of the Swans, Jane Gordon Duchess of Gordon, Lady Jane Maxwell, Lord Brome, Robert Burns, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Sir WIlliam Maxwell
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Nadine Lee
Billy Connolly's Highland Retreat For Sale
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The Dining Room at Candacraig With a price tag of almost £3 million pounds, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly's Highland baronial home in Aberdeenshire has been listed on the market. The 12-bedroom ...
Topics: Aberdeenshire, Billy Connolly, Candacraig, Clan Anderson, Corgarff, Glenbuchat, Kildrummy, Macnab, Real Estate
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Nadine Lee
A Cannonball, a Sheepskin and a Loch Village
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From a cannonball found lodged in the wall of a castle, to a Bronze Age body wrapped in a sheepskin - it's been a thrilling week in the field of archaeology. Here's the lowdown on the latest uncovered...
Topics: archaeology, Bronze Age, Cannonball, Clan Campbell, clan donald, crannog, Excavation, Iron Age, Loch VIllage, Lochaber, Mingary Castle, sheepskin
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Nadine Lee
Home to Hume
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Clan Hume Gathering at Hume Castle, 08/09/2013 Earlier in September Amanda and I traveled to the Scottish Borders to spend an afternoon at Hume Castle, where part of this years Clan Hume/Home gathe...
Topics: Battle of Flodden, Borders, Canada, Clan Associations, David Douglas-Home CVO CBE, David Hume, diaspora, Duke of Roxburghe, Earl of Home, Floors Caste, Home, Hume, Hume Castle, Isla St Clair, King James II of Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, United States
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Nadine Lee
Photographs Reveal Croft Memories
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3:44am, Isle of Harris (John Maher) A new photographic exhibition is set to open that shines a light on abandoned crofts throughout the Western Isles of Scotland. Entitled Leaving Home: An Alternat...
Topics: boarded out children, croft, emmigration, Eriskay, Exhibition, hebrides, Homes, Ian Peterson, John Maher, Lewis, Photography, Stornoway, western isles
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