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28 Aug

85th Anniversary of St Kilda being evacuated

By Amanda Moffet
  • MacLeod
  • St Kilda

August 29th is the 85th anniversary of the last people leaving St Kilda.  For most people, St Kilda is remote and mysterious, a windswept outcrop in the North Atlantic which against all odds supported human habitation for more than 2,000 years (some say this is more like 4,000 years).  This lonely island sits in the outermost […]

28 Aug

The Sword of Donald Robertson of Woodsheal

By Amanda Moffet
  • MacFarlane
  • MacGregor
  • MacLaren
  • Robertson

A report by Paul Macdonald, Swordmaker Further to presenting a talk at Culloden House in April of this year on the topic of Scottish Swords of Legend, I was advised that the Clan Donnachaidh Museum housed a sword with Culloden provenance. As this was on the return route to Edinburgh, stopping in to study the […]

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