Tag Archives: Strathallan

Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 5) – Stone in the Sky ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

A Pictish stone so large, it needs its own ‘hangar’. You can’t miss Sueno’s stone. It sits on its own plateau, just off the old main road between Findhorn and Forres; now bypassed. You see its ‘hangar’ first, then realise … Continue reading →

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 4) – Sea and Stone ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I didn’t want to leave Burghead, not even for Findhorn; a place I’d wanted to visit for a long time. Burghead had filled me (many of us, I think) with a sense of ancient mystery and that dreadful knowledge that … Continue reading →

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 3) – A Pictish Headland ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The Moray Firth is vast, wild and beautiful. Examined on a map it resembles a child’s geometry exercise in triangles, with the coast between its ‘origin’ at Inverness and far-away Fraserburgh being a virtually flat west-east baseline. From Fraserburgh the … Continue reading →