Old travel Blog photograph of Avoch located on the South East coast of the Black Isle on the Moray Firth, Scotland. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to explore the great Canadian river now known as the Mackenzie River, crossing North America twice, to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and Pacific Ocean in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he died in 1820 and was buried in the old Avoch Parish churchyard. Craigie Well at Avoch has offerings of both coins and clouties. Rags, wool and human hair were also used as charms against sorcery, and as tokens of pennance and fulfilment of a vow.
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