Undiscovered Scotland

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Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like. Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/

The Glamis Manse symbol stone. The image shows a large Pictish symbol stone to the right of the centre of the frame, with a high-relief cross carved on the visible face. This stands on a lawn with a gravel path to its left and a stone house left of that. Beyond the stone is a hedge and a church. The sky is mainly blue.
The ruins of St Anthony's Chapel. The image shows a view down onto a two-storey section of stone wall seen from the inside, with a low stone column to its right. Visible windows and doorways have arched tops. There are some rocks in the foreground and in the background the ground descends to a lake and trees and part of Edinburgh can be seen beyond, with the Firth of Forth beyond that. The light is subdued.
Hopetoun House. The image shows the long grey stone frontage of Hopetoun House stretched across the centre of the frame with the main block in the centre and two subsidiary blocks forward of it to the left and right. There is a large tree on the left of the frame and grass and drives this side of the house, with a lower area in the foreground. The scene is in sunlight.
The peaks of Quinag in Sutherland. The image shows a view down onto a main riad that curves around the lower right of the frame. There’s a large parking area upper left of it, and then a wide sea loch. Beyond that the land climbs past trees to the peaks of Quinag. The scene is mainly in sunlight.
Raasay House on the island of Raasay. The image shows the large honey-coloured stone house from the front corner with the frontage extending off to the left and part of the side of the house on the right. It is two storeys high and has lots of finials and chimney pots. The foreground is an open area with picnic tables. The sky is blue.
The harbour at Lybster in Caithness. The image shows a view over still water to the inland side of the harbour which has four small white boats moored and reflected in the water. In the background the land rises around the harbour and there are two substantial grey or white buildings part way up. The light is subdued.
Devil's Clawmarks. The image shows the top of a brownish-grey stone wall slightly angled from lower left to top right of the frame. There are six deep grooves carved out of on the stone on the left of the frame, filled with water. A person’s had extends into the frame from the right and is placed on the top of the wall to give a sense of scale. It is much smaller than the six grooves.
Dawyck Botanic Garden and arboretum. The image shows a telephoto view along a narrow grassy path with a profusion of flowers, shrubs and trees on either side. There are two people standing on the path with their backs to the camera. In the background, beyond more trees, are a collection of roofs and chimney posts of a grand house. The scene is in sunlight.
Carn Liath broch. The image shows the remains of the broch in the foreground set in a grassy mound with some of the interior stone features visible including a stair descending into the structure in the right foreground. In the background is a low shoreline with trees on the left and the sea on the right. The scene is in sunlight.
Mallaig. The image shows a view from a raised perspective of the town and harbour of Mallaig with a pier on the right and a slipway and repair facility in the lower centre of the frame. In the background are buildings climbing a slight hillside of mainly two and three storeys. The sea lies beyond them and there is the outline of the Isle of Rum on the horizon on the right.
Leadhills. The image shows a view across a shallow valley with steps leading down into it from the foreground and pinkish roads leading across the frame. On the far side of the valley is a scatter of houses and cottages set amid trees, with a hillside climbing beyond them. The sky is mainly blue.
Torwood Blue Pool. The image shows a low circular brick structure set into the ground and surrounded by tussocky grass. Above it are the overhanging branches of trees. The structure is full of blueish water and covered with debris from the trees. In the background is dense vegetation with trees beyond that.
Kilmuir. The image shows a view along a rocky beach that curves to the left and has sea to its left. There is grass above the beach and a road, and to the right and above the road is a line of houses and cottages that blends back into a hillside covered in trees. The sky is largely blue.
Dunfermline Palace. The image shows a vertical wall on the right with, to its left, an extensive range of ruins with many features. More ruins extend back and to the left and there is a curving wall across the centre of the frame. In the top left is a large church. The view is into strong sunlight.
Dornoch. The image shows a view over a grassed and paved area with an ornate drinking fountain. Then there is a road, beyond which is what looks like a castle with a tower house at its right-hand end. To its right are walls with a gateway. There are trees around the green area and they obscure much of the view on the left. The scene is in sunlight.
Sanquhar Castle. The image shows a ruined tower house in the upper right of the frame with lower ruins leading back diagonally across the frame to the lower left. There’s a fence on the right with part of a tree. The scene is in sunlight.
The Tarves Tomb. The image shows a niche in what was originally the wall of a church. It has an arched top and is extremely highly decorated with ornate carvings above, below and around it. The niche itself is empty. The stonework is a slightly brownish grey.
Howmore or Tobha Mor on the island of South Uist in the Western Isles. The image shows two thatched cottages stretching across the centre of the frame, overlapping as seen in the photo. The one on the left has much of its roof under repair. This side of them is a shallow green valley with a narrow road on this side of it. In the background are rocky hills. The scene is in sunlight.
Soutra Aisle. The image shows a small stone building with a rough stone roof in the upper right of the frame, with three people standing in front of it. In the bottom left is a low wall with information boards on it, with a woman reading them. The sky is blue.
The Eagle Stone, or Clach an Tiompain. The image shows a small grassy mount in the foreground surmounted by a carved Pictish stone carrying the symbol of an eagle. Beyond it are wooden fences and then a grassy field flanked by trees. The light is dull.
Newark Castle. The image shows a three-storey stone castle beyond an area of mown grass. It comprises three ranges set in a U shape and is complete. In the background on both the left and the right of the frame is a broad river. The sky is blue.
The Fortingall Yew. The image shows a view across a grassy graveyard with the end of a church on the extreme left of the frame. Beyond the graves is a path and a stone-walled enclosure with the yew growing up out of it across much of the width of the image. The sky is mainly blue.
A magnificent effigy of a knight in the ruined Old Fordyce Church. The image shows the stone effigy lying on its back with its legs in the bottom right and its head in the middle left of the frame. It is wearing armour and there is a plaque set against the wall of the niche it resides in on the right. The scene is in sunlight.
Ardvreck Castle. The image shows the stump of a castle in the centre of the frame, standing in a grassy peninsula with the still waters of a loch reflecting the castle this side of it. There is more grass this side of the loch and in the background a shadowy mountain climbs to the top of the frame and out of it in the upper right. The castle is in sunlight.
The Hill o' Many Stanes in Caithness. The image shows a view over a rough moorland area to farmland in the background. The moorland area is punctuated by large numbers of small standing stones. The light is dull.
Aird of Sleat. The image shows a view along a landscape that slopes down from left to right, with the sea visible on the right of the frame. A narrow road with a few white cottages leads up the centre of the frame. In the distance a settlement can be seen on the far shore with rocky mountains rising in the background. The scene is in sunlight.
Croick Church in Sutherland. The image shows the church in the lower centre of the frame, at a distance. There are fields and walls this side of the church and beyond it is a broad glen with partly wooded hills climbing in the background. There are patches of sunlight on parts of the scene.
The beach at Gullane Bents, in Gullane, East Lothian. The image shows a view along a broad sandy beach which curves around to the left, with the sea visible on the left. On the right are banks of marram grass and there are two people in the distance on the beach. The sky is largely blue.
Ben More on the Isle of Mull. The image shows a view over a stony beach and broad loch to mountains on the far side. These rise to two stony peaks which are at the centre of strands of white cloud set against the blue sky.
The Yarrow Stone in the Scottish Borders. The image shows a small enclosure with a wooden fence on the near side of a broad valley with animals grazing in the distance. Standing in the enclosure is an upright stone surrounded by tall grass. The stone and enclosure are in sunlight.
West Kilbride. The image shows a view down a street that slopes away from the view and then climbs a little. There are two and three-storey buildings on both sides and spired on both sides at the far end of the street. The land rises in the distance. The scene is in sunlight.
Balvaird Castle. The image shows a castle built in grey stone with features in more reddish stone. The tower house is on the left and the remains of other buildings are on the right and in the foreground, with a leafless tree on the right of the frame. There is grass in the foreground. The sky is blue.
Hackness Martello Tower. The image shows a circular stone structure in the right middle of the frame. It is accessed by external metal stairs on its left and surmounted by a flagpole with a light blue flag. The foreground is grassy and there are some buildings and the sea in the background. The sky is blue.
The harbour at Camusterrach on the Applecross peninsula. The image shows a view over water with the tide well out to part of a village on a promontory with the walls of an old harbour and boats moored and on land. The sky is light blue.
Abbey Knowe. The image shows the rough grassy summit of a small hill in the foreground with trees beyond it and lower farmland in the background. There are stone structures set into the ground on the hilltop and a square plinth beyond them. The scene is in sunlight.
Castle Stalker. The image shows the tower house castle standing on a small islet in the bottom right of the frame. In the background is a promontory with trees extending into the frame from the right and in the distance are high mountains beyond more water. The scene is in sunlight.
The memorial near Dunning in Perthshire to Maggie Wall. The image shows a roughly constructed stone plinth surmounted by an upright stone and a cross. Written in white on the structure are the words Maggie Wall burnt here 1657 as a witch. The monument is surrounded by wooden fencing and the land drops away in the background. The sky is blue.
Aros Castle. The image shows a view over a tidal bay with the tide out to an overgrown headland with rocks on the right and trees on the left. In the upper centre of the frame are the walls of a ruined castle, partly overgrown. The scene is in sunlight.
The Emigrants Statue overlooking Helmsdale in Sutherland. The image shows a grassy area in the foreground with a stone plinth surmounted by statues of a family. There are six flagpoles on the right with flags and a glimpse of the sea on the right. Buildings can be seen in the background. The sky is mainly blue.
Hermit's Castle. The image shows a rocky headland extending away from the camera with an inlet from the sea on the right and more sea in the background and a strip of land on the left horizon. In the lower centre of the frame is a concrete structure pierced by square holes and angular in shape. The scene is in sunlight.
Ponies grazing on Traprain Law. The image shows a steep grassy slope with a horizon that extends from mid left of the frame to bottom right. Four fully or partly visible brown ponies are visible on the skyline, quite close to the camera. They are all grazing. The sky is mainly blue.
Noltland Castle on the island of Westray in Orkney. The image shows a reddish stone castle standing on a rising grassy slope. There is a tower house rising to roof level, though without the roof, on the right and lower remains to the left of it. A hillside rises in the background. The light is dull.
Saddell Abbey. The image shows a view over a rough grass graveyard with standing stones, some surrounded by iron railings. On the far side are the partial ruins of a stone structure, with trees in the background and on the left. The scene is in sunlight.
The remains of Dunscaith Castle near Tarskavaig on the Isle of Skye. The image shows a view over water to a headland coming into the frame from the right. The head of the headland carries traces of stonework and there’s part of an access bridge over the neck leading to the head. There are high mountains in the background. The light is subdued.
St Monans. The image shows a view over a harbour to a slipway with, beyond it, a collection of red tile roofed houses. There are numerous small boats parked at the top of the slipway. A windmill can be seen in the distance on the right. The harbour is in sunlight.
The Kelpies. The image shows the two tall sculptures of horses’ heads made from small plates of shiny silver metal. One is turned to face the camera, the other is looking up into the sky. In the foreground is a broad path on which some people are standing. The sky is largely blue.
The Old Session House at Kiel. The image shows the interior of a wood-lined room which has seven visible stone grave markers leaning against its right and rear walls. They are intricately carved and clearly very old.
Tràigh Eais near the northern end of the island of Barra. The image shows a view along a broad white beach backed by marram grass that extends from bottom middle to upper right of the frame. In a line from upper left to a headland upper right is a blue and turquoise sea with waves breaking. The scene is in sunlight.
The broad path up 2,334ft Tinto. The image shows a view up the upper part of a bulbous mountain tp a wide cairn on its summit. A broad pink path leads up the mountain, over an intermediate rise. There are two people walking up the path, though one is each side of it. The light is subdued.
Corgarff Castle. The image shows a grassy foreground leading to a white-painted star-shaped wall pierced by musket slits. Contained within the wall is a white-painted tower house that rises above the wall. The sky is blue.
Clashmore. The image shows a view along a narrow road that extends from lower left to mid right. There is a scatter of houses and cottages along it. In the background is the line of a ridge with three mountains rising above it in the far distance. The sky is blue.
The Cathedral of the Isles in Millport. The image shows a view up and across grassy banks to a small stone church with a very tall tower and spire on its left. There is a range of further buildings on the right, at the top of a grassy bank. The sky is largely blue.
The Borders Distillery in Hawick. The image shows the interior of the still room with a line of four stills extending from near right to far left. They are glowing bright orange in sunlight coming through the glass roof. A line of condensers is off to the right of the stills.
The Tay Bridge at Aberfeldy. The image shows a view from a riverbank of a bridge made of honey-coloured stone. It has five arches, with the largest in the centre. The central span is marked by obelisks rising from the bridge parapet. The sky is blue.
Cromarty. The image shows a street view with a wall on the right and a run of houses on the left, all harled and with the middle one with a thatched roof and crowstepped gables. There are some cars parked on the left of the street. The sky is blue.
Tolquhon Castle near Pitmedden in Aberdeenshire. The image shows the exterior of the corner of a large castle which stands to roof height but is roofless. There’s a tree on the left and a low stone plinth surrounds the base of the castle with mown grass sloping away to the right and towards the camera. The sky is blue.
Bannockburn Visitor Centre. The image shows the interior of the Bannockburn Visitor Centre which is dark apart from projections of a battle going on onto screens around the space with a dozen people in the space looking at the projections or at a table display in the centre.
Bannockburn. The image shows paths leading up a slight hill to a memorial comprising a broad circular stone ring with parts cut out. Inside it is a monument and a tall flagpole with a Saltire flying from the top. The scene is in sunlight.
Thurso. The image shows a view of a park in a square with stone buildings on both sides and the end of a church at its far end. There are three trees around the park and a floral feature in the centre foreground with a bench on its right. Someone is sitting on the bench. The sky is largely blue.
The effigy of Robert the Bruce in St Conan's Kirk. The image shows the upper body of the effigy lying on its back with its head at the right-hand end. It is wearing a dark cloak, armour and helmet and the face and hands made of something like alabaster. Light from windows in the background is coming through part of the face.