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  The remains of Dunskey Castle, on the cliffs above Portpatrick. On a stormlashed evening, you can just hear the skirl of pipes down in the caves below. This place has seen turbulent times. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #HappyHalloween

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  The Hole Stone (or Crow Stone) in Galloway. Local tradition says that it was used during marriage ceremomies, by joining hands through the hole. A similar tradition is attached to St Kennera's Cross, a 10th century disc headed cross, pierced at the four quarters, at nearby Kirkinner. It stands close to the White Cairn and another stone reputedly once accompanied it, which had gone by the mid-1800s. #Scotland #History #StandingStoneSunday

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  On dark, windy nights like these, standing on the beach below the ruins of Kirkmaiden Church, as the waves lash the shore, you swear you can hear the wraith bell tolling from the depths of Luce Bay, calling another McCulloch to their fate. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland

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  The Hole Stone (or Crow Stone) in Galloway. Local tradition says that it was used during marriage ceremomies, by joining hands through the hole. A similar tradition is attached to St Kennera's Cross, a 10th century disc headed cross, pierced at the four quarters, at nearby Kirkinner. It stands close to the White Cairn and another stone reputedly once accompanied it, which had gone by the mid-1800s. #Scotland #History #StandingStoneSunday

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  @deepsage There absolutely are. On the other side of Bladnoch Valley is Torhouse Stone Circle and a funerary landscape. To the south is The Wren's Egg and standing stones, aligned to the Winter Solstice sunset. Drumtroddan Stone Row points to Summer Solstice sunrise over the Galloway Hill and Drughdool Mote is a large connicle earth mound, like Silbury Hill, where Neolithic timber avenues and circles were excavated.

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  The Covenanter's Grave at Crossmichael Church. Here lyes William Graham who makeing his escape from his mothers house was pursued taken and instantly shot dead by a party of Claverhouse’s troop for his adherence to Scotlands Reformation Covenants National and Solemn League 1682. #Scotland #History

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  Snib's Cave (Bennane Cave), on the Ayrshire coast, near Lendalfoot. It was the home of Henry Ewing Torbet, aka Snib Scott (after an earlier inhabitant in the 1920s) for 30 years, until a severe storm in 1983 left him with pneumonia. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #History

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  Hidden by overgrowth on the shores of the White Loch is the burial ground at Inch Old Kirk, near Castle Kennedy. There has been a church here since the medieval period, until it was abandoned in 1861. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  Wall mounted memorial at Stoneykirk Parish Church. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland

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  The Loupin Stanes, Eskdalemuir. A small oval of stones on a constructed platform. #Scotland #AncientHistory #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #SouthernScotland

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  The Machars of Galloway. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  The 16th C. remains of Parton Old Kirk, the burial place of Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. Described as the 'Scottish Einstein' and the 'father of modern physics'. The church is now for sale and the community are trying to raise the funds to preserve it as a museum for Maxwell. Please help if you can: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savepartonkirk #Scotland

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  Graves at Crossmichael Kirk. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  The Carlin Stone, near Elrig in Galloway. Carlin can mean an old woman, winter goddess or witch. Also the last remaining sheaf of corn cut at harvest and made into an effergy. #Scotland #AncientHistory #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #SouthernScotland

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  Portencross Castle, Ayrshire. A tower house developed from a mid-13th century hall house, by the Boyd family. A local legend tells that the bodies of Scottish Kings were brought to Portencross on their way to Iona for burial. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #History #Medieval

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  The Old Kirk in Wigtown. Halloween is coming! #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  The Old St Nicholas Church in Prestwick. Thought to date from the 12th century, with later modifications, the church was built on an early medieval monastic site, of the 8th century or earlier. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #History

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  The Kennedy Aisle in Ballantrae, built c.1602-04 and once attached to tbe old Parish Church. It's 1819 replacement stands behind it. It was built for Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Bargany, killed by his rival John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Carssillis, in 1601. #Scotland #Ayrshire #History

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  The 16th century remains of Parton Old Kirk, the burial place of Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. Described as the 'Scottish Einstein' and the 'father of modern physics'. The church is now for sale and the community are trying to raise the funds to preserve it as a museum for Maxwell. Please help if you can: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savepartonkirk

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  Crossmichael Parish Church - the main body dates from around 1750, but the distinctive tower is possibly early 1600s. It sits on a small knoll and has probably been a site of worship since ancient times. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  Parton Church, built in 1832-34 is the burial place of Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. It is now for sale and the community are trying to raise the funds to preserve it as a museum for Maxwell. Please help if you can: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savepartonkirk

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  Please support the people of Creetown and Carsluith in Dumfries and Galloway to oppose the impending industrial woodland proposal around Barholm. This land was quietly purchased by a London and EU based venture capitalist investment business. https://c.org/B2j9BTnWY4

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  One of three stone rows, adjacent to Torhouse Stone Circle, near Wigtown in the Machars of Galloway and part of a wider ceremonial landscape. #Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography

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  Monreith House in the Machars of Galloway. Built in 1791 by William Maxwell and has remained the home of Maxwells since, until now. The house and the estate is currently listed for sale. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  The burial ground at Inch Old Kirk, near Castle Kennedy. There has been a church here since the medieval period, until it was abandoned in 1861. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  Calanais Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis. #Scotland #AncientHistory #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography

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  A stone eagle in the grounds of Monreith House. The (double headed) eagle is featured on the Maxwells of Monreith's coat of arms. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  Mist and twisted trees at the edge of the woods. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

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  Drumtroddan Standing Stones in Galloway. One of the first sites to be donated into state care following the 1882 Ancient Monuments Act, by Herbert Maxwell. A stone fell a few years ago, leaving just a single one remaining. Historic Environment Scotland have decided against restoring the fallen stone, declaring the money better spent elsewhere. This isn't state care, it is managed decline. What would Herbert Maxwell think now? #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

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  Monreith House in the Machars of Galloway. Built in 1791 by William Maxwell and has remained the home of Maxwells since, until now. The house and the estate is currently listed for sale. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland