Sign Up
Tartan Footprint helps you connect and share with Scottish people in your life.
Search Blogs...

Scottish History

Donald
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe's Restoration Completed
by
On Sunday (01/08) Castle Sinclair Girnigoe will open to the public after a ten-year long restoration. The £700,000 facelift will try to help preserve the castle's archeological and historical import...
Topics: Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Clan Sinclair
Donald
The Cameron Men
by
The name Cameron originates from the Gaelic words 'cam', meaning wry or crooked, and 'sron' meaning nose, suggesting that the progenitor of the Clan Cameron had a crooked nose! Cameron is one of th...
Donald
Scottish Soldier's VC and Cannonball sells for £1/4m.
by
A set of medals, including the Victoria Cross, and a cannonball, has sold at auction for £252,000, more than doubling its predicted £120,000 price. The medals, which were awarded to John Simpson Kno...
Donald
Battle of Prestonpans site changes
by
A team of archaeologists led by Dr. Tony Pollard from the University of Glasgow's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology (Guard) have concluded in a report that the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans probably too...
Topics: Battle of Prestonpans, Jacobite Rising
Donald
The Font Stone
by
If you're walking through the Abriachan Gardens you will come across a heart-shape stone which is deeply embedded in the ground called the Font Stone. The flat rock has a hole in the middle which is f...
Topics: St Columba, St Finian
Previous Next
106-110 of 125 Results