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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Beside the seaside!
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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

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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