Category: NEEDS PIC
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Inchgower distillery
When I booked the tour and tasting at Inchgower distillery as part of the Spirit of Speyside 2025, I was envisaging cycling over on a relaxed balmy summer day then after a pleasant visit, cruising along the coast to Cullen to lie back on the beach and enjoy the waves. However this is Scotland so…
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Beltane Lagmore
On my way back from visiting the Cairn distillery, I twifelled a bit then decided of course I should stop at Upper Lagmore to say hello to this most powerful of sites. Indeed, I got a tingle when I approached and it felt good to be there. The weather was poor and the photos are…
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Cothiemuir Wood RSC
After sitting in the sunshine for a while absorbing the intense lessons of Old Keig RSC, I decided to give myself another chance to find Cothiemuir Wood stone circle. I had stupidly managed to come out without both a charged phone and a OS map, so I was in the dark. I’d previously got as far as the sign off the…
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Stonehead RSC
What a cracker of a monument!! I’ve tried to find this a few times and finally succeeded on the spring equinox. As others have noted, the setting is sublime and despite only the recumbent and flankers remaining, it’s a stunning site, with the view down to Dunnideer castle and the way the hill drops away.
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A ritual centre in Moray?
This field between Bleachfield cottage and Leitchestown farm in Deskford, Moray, is most famous for the discovery of the Deskford carnyx (an Iron age war trumpet) around 1816. A labourer (great great grandfather of a man who lived in the cottage where I write this text) was digging for peat and came across fragments of the carnyx…
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Lagmore circles
Wow! What a fantastic way to spend a few hours on the last day of 2024 🙂 I first tried to get to Marionburgh circle but the gate was shut with a sign saying no access, I’m not sure how that interlinks with the freedom to roam but I thought I’d return if the other…
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Spicy library
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