Corgarff

May 28, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

A unique star-shaped curtain wall surrounds the restored tower

Duffus

May 29, 1999.Reading time 4 minutes.

One of the most striking ruins in the highlands, Duffus looks like it is sinking into the soft mound of earth upon which it is built

May 29, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

An easy to miss cluster of stone foundations jutting out to sea are all that remain of this 15th century castle

May 29, 1999.Reading time 4 minutes.

One of the few medieval buildings with the remains of original plaster inside

May 30, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Now a rather comfortable hotel, this lovely tower-house stands in the middle of Dornoch town

May 30, 1999.Reading time 6 minutes.

The ruined castle on perhaps the most famous loch in Scotland — Loch Ness

May 30, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A complete baronial mansion, now a country-house hotel, with turrets and towers

May 31, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

A french-chateau in the Scottish Highlands, who’d have thought?

May 31, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A tiny, ruined z-plan tower house, which has partially collapsed into the sea

May 31, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Weird stacked-stone formations, and two separate castles on this crumbling sea cliff