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The Font Stone
by Donald
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
Dunollie Castle Spiders To Be Given Protection
by Donald
Spiders at Dunollie Castle in Argyll & Bute, have been granted special protection from the workers during the castle’s £1.3 million restoration.
European cave spiders, also known as Meta menardi, n...
Topics:
MacDougall, Dunollie Castle, Castles, Restoration, Cumming, Nature, Spiders
James Taylor - “The Father of the Ceylon Tea Industry”
by Donald
Over the weekend of the 22nd to the 24th of August, Scotland's Tea Festival will be hosting a series of events in Laurencekirk and Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire celebrating tea and Scotland's contributi...
ScotClans Visit the South West.
by Donald
On the 4th of March, two of the ScotClans team (Amanda and Donald) went on a resource finding trip down and around the south west of Scotland. We took in a number of castles and places of interest alo...