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Living in the Scottish highlands there's no shortage of good walks and hikes that my dog and I enjoy. There's one route through a local forest that I've been noticing is a bit odd though. I'd say I walk the dog there a couple of times a month, and have been doing so for a year or so. The odd...

Many years ago I came across an article in a magazine (The Scot’s magazine I think) and subsequently a chapter in Rennie McOwan’s book Magical Mountains about little stone effigies that can apparently be found around the remains of shielings in the Scottish Highlands. Shielings were the summer...