Moniaive in Dumfries & Galloway. The image shows the centre of the village with a mercat cross standing above a circular red stone plinth. There is a line of white buildings on the left and beyond the crossis a hotel finished in white with red details. There are lines of bunting criss-crossing above the street. The sky is blue.

The pretty village of Moniaive in Dumfries & Galloway, where Anna or “Annie” Laurie, subject of a love poem and a classic folk song, was born in about 1680. The real story that inspired the poem did not end as the poet had hoped. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Moniaive

John Muir’s Birthplace Museum. The image shows an oblique view of one side of a street in Dunbar. A stone building on the right and a blue-painted building on the left sandwich a three-storey and three bay wide white building with a red pantile roof. It is flying the Saltire and the US flag. The scene is in sunshine.

188 years ago today. John Muir, who convinced US President Theodore Roosevelt that Yosemite should be protected as a national park, was born in Dunbar in East Lothian on 21 April 1838. Today his birthplace is a museum about him. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #EastLothian

Laidhay Croft Museum. The image shows the interior of a traditional croft house. There’s a stone flagged floor and wooden roof trusses. There are lots of chairs and other furniture in the room and the table and sideboard are full of chinaware. There are paintings and a clock on the walls. A door at the end leads into a smaller room.

A glimpse of a world now gone. Inside the evocative Laidhay Croft Museum which stood beside the main A9 road a mile north-east of Dunbeath in Caithness. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Caithness #LaidhayCroftMuseum #Museum #Dunbeath

A rainbow glows under dark and moody skies in the Cairngorms National Park - Scotland.

April Showers 🌈

Dry stone wall in bright sunshine. Dark hills beyond.

Some more dark light. Bit arty, but hey.

Sunset in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.

#glasgow #sunset #kelvingrovepark #glasgowtoday #glasgowuniversity

Saltcoats Castle near Gullane. The image shows the ruins of a stone castle in bright sunlight. The tallest section is towards the left-hand side of the frame and there is a long lower range to its right. There are walls to its left. The area is heavily overgrown with trees and nettles. The sky is blue.

The little known and highly unusual Saltcoats Castle, hidden away half a mile to the south of Gullane in East Lothian. It probably dates back to the years after 1590, despite a date mark that appears to be two centuries older. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #EastLothian

Love this rather weird-looking fish from beside the door of the old dispensary building of the Western Infirmary. Designed by J.J. Burnet, the dispensary was built around 1913.

#glasgow #sculpture #fish #architecture #architecturephotography

It's Saturday, so we're back with those old Anderston postcards. Now, best behaviour the lot of you, that big polis has just clocked us!…

Image of Cullen Bay and beach and Seatown and Viaduct from Castle Hill

Image of Cullen Harbour and Seatown from Castle Hill

Image of Cullen Burn and Bin Hill

Image of beach, sea and blue pedestrian bridge

Lovely views of Cullen this Sunday afternoon from Castle Hill and the old railway line.

Check out our website for walking routes in and around Cullen.

The limekiln at Boddin Point. The image shows the limekiln in the upper left centre of the frame, with grass to its left. In the foreground is a rocky shoreline that is being undercut and seems to be collapsing. To the right is a rocky beach, while the sea is in the background. The scene is in sunshine.

The limekiln at Boddin Point in Angus, a little north of Lunan Bay. Dating back to the 1700s, it is ever more undercut by the sea and seems inevitably destined for collapse. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #BoddinPoint #Limekiln #Angus #LunanBay

The image shows a view across ornate formal gardens in the foreground to a stone wall, beyond which the gardens rise steeply to a fairy-tale castle in light stone sitting on top of a ridge. The castle is large and the angles have slim circular towers topped off with tall conical roofs. There are trees on the two sides of the frame. The scene is in subdued light. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top left corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. The central characters stay at Dunrobin Castle as the story develops.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html

Black and white photo of a ruined stone tower house, on over grown earthworks in woodland.

Myrton Castle in the Machars of Galloway. Former home of the McCullochs and the Maxwells, built in the late 15th/early 16th C on the site of a wooden tower and motte.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

In 1547 during the Wars of the 'Rough Wooing' the English invasion forces built a V shaped cannon platform at Eyemouth which was later extended. They also built a Fort at Haddington in 1548. Tantallon Castle also added a Ravelin for cannon defense it may have been inspired by these Forts.

Trees, river, hills and sun.

Hopefully, you'll pick up the atmosphere of this place from its photo.

Dundonald Castle. The image shows a view up a steep grassy slope to the corner of a massive monolithic ruined castle. The castle can be seen to have no roof and the window openings are ruinous. The scene is in sunlight.

636 years ago today. King Robert II died at Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire on 19 April 1390. He began the House of Stewart/Stuart, which ruled Scotland for over two centuries before unifying the crowns of Scotland and England. More about Robert II here: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Ayrshire

The Ring of Brodgar, three of the megaliths with snowy hills in the background

Structure 27 under excavation at the Ness of Brodgar... not officially within the confines of the World Heritage site as it wasn't discovered when the site was designated! But actually slap bang in the middle of the WHS site!

Skara Brae, the Neolithic village setting grass covered sand dunes next to the sea.

Barnhouse Neolithic village, situated between Maeshowe, the Ness of Brogar and the Stones of Stenness on the back of Harray Loch

#WorldHeritageDay
I have had the joy and privilege of working and excavating at the Heart of #Neolithic #Orkney #WHS since 2016.
That's it... just me bragging, really 😉
📸 mine
#Archaeology #Heritage

The Isle of Arran from Seamill Beach on the Clyde Coast. One of the wonderful things about living in Glasgow is how close we are to some rather stunning countryside.

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#glasgow #seamillbeach #arran #scotland #beach

Just checking out the cherries on The Meadows #Edinburgh Don’t think they’re quite at their peak but nearly 🙂🩷 So very pretty…

The Glenelg Ferry. The image shows a stone slipway extending into the frame from the bottom left into a broad body of water. Moored against its end is a green and red turntable ferry with a single black car on it. The turntable is aligned with the slipway. On the far side of the water and in the distance are shorelines rising up rocky slopes.

"Over the sea to Skye": the Glenelg Ferry on the Isle of Skye side of the Kyle Rhea. This channel offers the shortest route between the Isle of Skye and the mainland and was the earliest regular crossing point to and from the island. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Glenelg

The image shows a view from above its north-western end of the Kylesku Bridge. The roadway enters the frame in the bottom right and then curves to the right, with the bridge filling much of the frame before reaching the rocky far shore of the crossing in the upper right of the frame. The bridge stands on thin supports and the background scenery is rocky and mountainous. The sky is light blue. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top left corner.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west, with the Kylesku Bridge playing a part.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-thr/ind...

Warriston’s Close Steps, Edinburgh.

Cloud touching the tops of mountains.

It's been sunny and cloudy and wet here this week. Next week looks back to normal for April (dry and sunny).

Spring cherry blossoms against red sandstone tenements in the Broomhill area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #broomhill #tenement #spring #cherryblossom

Anstruther in Fife. The image shows a harbourside with two large masted wooden boats in the foreground, the larger called Reaper. People are walking along the quayside and beyond the road behind it is a line of buildings in stone and white, the most obvious, on the right, being the Ship Tavern. The sky is blue.

Anstruther on the north shore of the Firth of Forth in the wonderful East Neuk of Fife. A busy and attractive harbour and the main commercial centre in the East Neuk: as well as being home to outstanding fish & chips. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Anstruther #Fife

A painting of the battle of Culloden, possibly commissioned by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, c.1748. The image has been enhanced to cut through a thick layer of varnish. Painting attributed to the Duke's military draughtsman, Thomas Sandby.

📸 © Royal Collection Trust

The new bridge at the Spittal of Glenmuick car park has been opened today by Balmoral Estate. This means that access is back to normal for Lochnagar and neighbouring Munros, the circular walk around Loch Muick etc.
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cairngorms/b...
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A rather beautiful painted glass screen in the lowest pane of a tenement window on West Princes Street in Glasgow.

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#glasgow #window #stainedglass #tenement #architecture

Bowmore Distillery. The image shows a view of the white-painted buildings of the distillery. There’s a wall left foreground and a gateway on the right. Beyond is a gable end with the name of the distillery and a little further away another building topped off by two tall pagodas. The sky is blue.

Bowmore Distillery, in the heart of the village of Bowmore beside Loch Indaal on the Isle of Islay. It has its own maltings, so the pagodas are not just for show. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #BowmoreDistillery #IsleOfIslay #Islay #Bowmore #Scotch #Whisky

The image shows Stirling Castle from the west. The castle occupies a horizontal slice of the image about three-quarters of the way up. Below it are the cliffs it stands above and a broad swathe of the image is occupied by the trees cloaking the lower slopes of the rock. There is part of a field in the foreground. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle - seen here from the west - and more widely across Scotland during World War Two.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html