Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Gatehouse to Ardverikie, Scotland. The Gatehouse to Ardverikie House appears many times in Monarch of the Glen. It is next to the A86 road and, if you are travelling from Laggan, it can be seen on the left of the road a mile or so before you reach Loch Laggan.
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Street view of Dun Troddan Broch, Glenelg, Scotland. A broch tower, standing more than 10 metres high, with well preserved structural features. Set in beautiful surroundings. A Broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Tour Scotland photograph of Fort George near Inverness, Scotland. Fort George, Ardersier, Highlands, Scotland, is a large 18th century fortress near Inverness with perhaps the mightiest artillery fortifications in Europe. It was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness, Scotland. Two chambered burial cairns of Neolithic date. One is long, with two chambers and projecting ‘ horns ’ and the other is round, and contains a single chamber.
Tour Scotland photograph of Stanydale Neolithic Temple, Stanydale, West Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Tanydale is the best known although not the biggest ancient settlement sites in West Mainland Shetland. The main feature is the so called Stanydale Temple an oval house twice as big as the oval houses lying next to it. A fourth and better preserved oval house is right on the track leading to the site. Pottery found on the site indicates that the houses were in use for a very long time from Late Neolithic right through the Bronze Age. The main building shows two post-holes in its centre which might have supported some kind of timber roof, a very unusual construction within a nearly wood less environment like the Shetland islands of those days. The size of the building, the entrance situation similar to the facades of the so called heel-shaped cairns and the sophisticated construction of the roofing led the excavator to suggest that this building was used as a "temple" but it might have served as some kind of a chieftains house or an assembly hall as well.
