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Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names around our area The consensus amongst scholars is that Pictish is a P-Celtic language related to Welsh, as opposed to Scottish Gaelic, which is a Q-Celtic language, although both come from an Early Celtic language. Pictish place
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In Guyana's Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations. Among them were the Baillies of Rosehall. The first recorded owner of Rosehall Estate, which included the east side of Glen Cassley –the west side being a part
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Interview with renowned photographer couple specialising in the Polar regions Ardgay-based photographers Cherry & Bryan Alexander have been travelling to the polar regions for the last 49 years. Bryan documents the lives of the native peoples of Northern Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Arctic Canada and Arctic Scandinavia, while Cherry photographs wildlife,
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Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area In Gaelic cù means ‘dog’ while the word madadh may mean either ‘dog’, ‘fox’ or ‘wolf’. Meall nam Madadh, ‘Hill of the dog’ (or perhaps ‘wolf’) is a 627.9m hill by Càrn Bàn In
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Nigel Webster from Gledfield Mill Pottery opens the doors of his studio and lets us have a peek at the amazing process of loading, firing and unpacking of the kiln. KC: When did you first become interested in pottery? NG: For as long as I can remember I have collected
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Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area There are two different words for grey in Scottish Gaelic: glas or greenish grey, and liath, a light grey of a blueish hue. Place names in the area related to the glas shade of grey
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Owls, foxes and puffins populate the artworks of artist and printmaker Louise Worthy, who 15 years ago swapped a career in the fashion industry for an art studio in the Highlands. KC: When and why you decided to become an artist? LW: My love of printmaking started when I was
Place-names
Toponyms from the various names for horse are very common, arising from the old practice of keeping horses on a pasture by themselves. Rosehall (Rossall) comes from the Norse hross-völlr, 'horse field'. In the adjacent Glen Rossal, several names incorporate the Gaelicised version Rosail: Rosail forest, Loch Rosail,