#southern-scotland — Public Fediverse posts
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Drumtroddan Standing Stones. This old feller is the last stone standing in what was once a row of 4, possibly 5 stones, pointing towards the Galloway Hills in the east.
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Over the garden wall. Glasserton Church.
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Greenan Castle, near Ayr. The ruin of a 15/16th C tower house, on the site of a previous motte and bailey and promontory fort. Tales of family feuds and murder still resonate around this atmospheric cliff top ruin.
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For 5000 years, Cairnholy Chambered Tomb has sat on this hillside, overlooking the Solway Firth, watching the centuries pass and still it is magnificent!
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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.
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Watcher of the skies.
The Wren's Egg, a glacial erratic accompanied by a pair of small standing stones, aligned to the Midwinter Sunset, in the Machars of Galloway.
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A twisted hawthorn tree at the Crook of Baldoon, looking out over the salt marsh of Wigtown Bay.
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Low tide at Church Bay, Monreith.
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Glasserton Church, near Whithorn in the Machars of Galloway. The wee bell-cot is said to have been taken from Kirkmaiden Church, when the parishes merged in the 17th C.
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Greenan Castle, Ayr. The ruin of a 15th C tower house, stands on the site of a motte and bailey and promontory fort. Dark tales of family feuds and murder still resonate around this atmospheric cliff top ruin. #blackandwhitephotography #Ayrshire #SouthernScotland #History
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Happy Beltane! Drumtroddan Rock Art, the Machars of Galloway.
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Callie's Port, Back Bay, Monreith. The caves here were once hiding places for both smugglers and covenanters.
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Baltersan Castle, close to Maybole. A tower house built in 1584 to replace Baltersan House, by the Kennedys. It was abandoned by the mid-18th C.
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Kirk Oswald, near Maybole in Ayrshire. Named after Oswald of Northumbria, who supposedly won a battle here during the 7th C. The church contains the baptismal font of Robert the Bruce.
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The gatehouse of Crossraguel Abbey, near Maybole in Ayrshire. Founded in the 13th century by Duncan, 1st Earl of Carrick. It is halfway between Paisley and Whithorn on the pilgrims' trail to the shrine of St Ninian.
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Dunure Castle, Ayrshire. They say that sometimes, you can still hear the screams of Allan Stewart, the Commendator of Crossraguel Abbey, as he was being roasted alive here by the Earl of Cassillis in 1570.
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Greenan Castle, near Ayr. The ruin of a 15th C tower house, stands the site of a previous motte and bailey and promontory fort. Tales of family feuds and murder still resonate around this atmospheric cliff top ruin.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Ayrshire #SouthernScotland -
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.
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Glasserton Church in the mist.
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Misty islands, the Machars of Galloway.
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Bare winter trees at Glasserton.
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Winter at Monreith Bay, Galloway. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland
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Gelston Castle as the sun sinks towards the horizon. Completed c.1805 by William Douglas (a plantation owner, rumoured to have amassed his fortune by privateering), near Castle Douglas in Galloway.
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Glasserton Church in the mist.
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Dunskey Castle, said to be haunted by a ghostly piper and a servant girl, plus home to a brownie known as The Hairy Man, the castle's clifftop, wave-lashed location has seen turbulent times.
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Kirkmaiden church, the foundations of which are said to be one of the oldest in Scotland. Supposedly founded by St Medan in the 7th C, an Irish Princess, who was magically transported across Luce Bay on a stone boat.
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