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Undiscovered Scotland
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Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
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damianshields.bsky.social
Incoming Storm, Elgol, Isle of Skye #Scotland #Elgol #IsleofSkye damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Absolutely love this grotesque on the former Coats Memorial Church in Paisley.

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#glasgow #paisley #architecture #grotesque #sculpture #gargoyle #gothicarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #architecturephotography
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Edzell Castle, near Edzell in Angus. The castle you see today was built from the early 1500s to replace a nearby motte built in about 1100. The remarkable walled garden was designed to provide a delightful retreat from the castle. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Angus
Edzell Castle, near Edzell in Angus. The image shows a pinkish stone ruined tower house across the centre of the frame, with the tower on the left and other buildings to the right of it. The tower is complete to roof level. This side of the buildings is a formal garden with low box hedges. The ground rises in the background. The scene is in sunlight.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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scotnational.bsky.social
An ambitious £12 million appeal is seeking to rescue Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm and restore the birthplace of Auld Lang Syne
£12 million fundraising appeal bid to rescue Robert Burns’s farm
www.thenational.scot
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Love this stained glass on Ross's Original Bar on Mitchell Street in Glasgow.

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#glasgow #glasgowpubs #architecture #glasgowbuildings #stainedglass #windows #windowswednesday #colours #stainedglasswindow #architecturephotography
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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asls.org.uk
“Pay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflection…Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are”

@dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social on Iain Banks for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
undisscot.bsky.social
Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeenshire, built in about 1250 by the Earl of Mar and once one of Scotland's most magnificent castles. It was located where it could command important routes across the region. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Kildrummy #Aberdeenshire
Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeenshire. The image shows the grey stone ruins of the castle under a clear blue sky. A wall on the right of the frame extends to considerable height and continues round to the middle of the frame. The bases of other stone ruins can be seen, including in the foreground. Areas of grass have daisies growing.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. The main character visits the army headquarters housed in Edinburgh Castle at the time.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-dol/ind...
The image shows a telephoto view up to the west side of Edinburgh Castle past a tree in the bottom left of the frame. The stone barracks are rising in the upper centre of the frame, with a high wall this side of them descending to steeply sloping grass banks. Below them is a lower stone wall which stands above rocky crags. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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damianshields.bsky.social
Loch Etive from Ardmaddy #Scotland #Argyll #GlenEtive damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Looking across Loch Kishorn towards Sgùrr a Chaorachain. (2,600 ft)... and a duck (0 feet).

Photo taken on Wednesday.
Golden landscape and still water.
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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My latest blog is all about Scotland’s ‘first broch’! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
Scotland's First Broch?.....a Robber's Castle? ......the multiple lives of Coldoch!
Unpicking the historiography of a southern broch!
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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A view from the west of the lovely harbour at Crail, the most easterly of the line of settlements along the south side of the East Neuk of Fife. It has an ancient history, being well settled by the 800s and thriving by the 1100s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Fife
The harbour at Crail. The image is looking down from a high viewpoint onto a harbour bounded by honey-coloured stone rubble walls that come in from the bottom of both sides of the frame to leave an entrance in the bottom middle. The tide is out and small boats in the harbour are high and dry. In the background cottages and buildings of stone or in white and many with red tile roofs climb a hillside. The sea can be glimpsed in the upper right of the frame. The scene is in sunlight.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Today, Nairn💙 #walking #nairn #nairnharbour #fisherwife #morayfirth
Four photo collage: mild, early winters day, grey skies with large white/yellow clouds. Top left and bottom right: marram grass and beach sand leading to the grey sea, with white choppy waves. Top right: small boats lined up next to each other in the marina; mainly white with touches of dark blue, light lie and red. Harbour equipment and storage can just be seen in the background. Bottom left: grey statue of a fisherwife with herring in her hand and a fish basket on her back. Greek grass surrounds the statue. Beige marram grass in the background leading to the grey sea.
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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andywightman.scot
NOVEMBER UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4900 landholdings (76.64% rural Scotland). The project is financed solely by subscription income. New subscriptions welcome - they start at £5 whoownsscotland.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The remarkable "firehoose" at Kirbuster Museum on Orkney's West Mainland. This part of the farmstead dates back at least as far as 1595, and the smoke from the peat fire simply makes its way out of a hole or "lum" left in the roof. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Orkney
The "firehoose" at Kirbuster Museum on Orkney's West Mainland. The image shows the interior of a stone farmstead. There is a fire and grate in the centre of the floor, set against a short and low stone wall. Wooden furniture is set around the walls and light is coming from the roof. A rope above the fire is uses to suspend fish to cure.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Cairnryan in Galloway plays an important part as the search for a spy builds towards its conclusion.
Available in paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows part of Cairnryan in Galloway. A road crosses the frame from the bottom left corner to the lower right. On its near side is a grassy area that fills the bottom right of the frame. On the far side of the road is a line of houses and cottages mainly finished in white, with some houses on a higher level at the near end. Behind the buildings is a wooded hillside. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A new etched glass door panel for a southside home. Anthemions and a meander type border.

#stainedglass #glasgow #scotland #etchedglass #Anthemions
An etched glass door with stylised palmette motif
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Before the thaw, Nov 25. Yesterday, the 26th, a big thaw began. #Cairngorms #snow
The sun setting over snowy mountains. Snow-covered mountains above a dark valley. An orange sky above snow-covered mountains after sunset. A pink sky after sunset above snow-covered mountains.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Civic space inside a roundabout in East Kilbride, 1960s. Pic: IRJ Woods Collection
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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A wintry view of the single track road east from remote Achiltibuie, north-west of Ullapool. The prominent peaky mountain is Stac Pollaidh whose character is out of all proportion to its mere 613m or 2,009ft in height. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #WesterRoss #StacPollaidh
A wintry view of the single track road east from remote Achiltibuie. The image shows a road leading out from the centre of the bottom of the frame with a passing place sign to its left. The road disappears over a hum, leaving snowy land extending out to the start of mountains, which climb to a spiky peak in the top left of the frame and are covered in snow. The scene is in sunlight.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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digitscotland.bsky.social
In AD 871, two Viking kings successfully laid siege to a fortress on Dumbarton Rock near Glasgow ⚔️

1,100 years later, archaeologists unearthed artefacts at the site which could be connected to the siege, including an iron pommel-bar for a Viking sword: www.digitscotland.com/top-five-arc...
Photo of a stone built castle built into a rocky cliff
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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fortrenn.bsky.social
The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
innes.bsky.social innes @innes.bsky.social · 2d
obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
stone carving of a goose looking back over its shoulder, above a fish Line drawing of the goose with a weird goofy smile
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Possibly the shortest tenement wall in Glasgow with windows in it! This is on Kilmailing Road in Cathcath.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #cathcart
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM