From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky

You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were – who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.

In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Map
• Introduction
• Worked
  • Belnahua, Firth of Lorn
  • Cauldstane Slap, West Lothian
  • Fasagh Ironworks, Loch Maree
  • Ard Nev Deer Trap, Isle of Rum
  • The Fish Road, Loch Glascarnoch
  • Ben Griam Beg, Sutherland
  • Kirnie Law, Innerleithen
  • The Viking Shipyard, Isle of Skye
  • Ard Neackie, Loch Eriboll
  • Fethaland, Shetland
  • Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde
  • Sandwood Bay, Sutherland
  • Salisbury’s Dam, Isle of Rum
  • Lassodie Village, Fife
• Sacred
  • Callanish XI, Isle of Lewis
  • Viking Boat Burial, Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan
  • Glencruitten ‘Cathedral of Trees’, Oban
  • Tigh na Cailleach, Glen Lyon
  • St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross
  • Sgorr nam Ban-Naomha, ‘The Cliffs of the Holy Women’, Isle of Canna
  • Dun Deardail, Glen Nevis
  • Cathkin Park, Glasgow
  • Na Clachan Aoraidh, Loch Tummel
  • Jacksonville Hut, Rannoch Moor
  • Square Cairn Cemetery, Bay of Laig, Isle of Eigg
  • The Forest Pitch, Selkirk
• Contested
  • Dere Street Roman Road, The Borders
  • Culbin Sands Poles, Moray
  • Clach na Briton, Glen Falloch
  • X-Craft Midget Submarines, Aberlady Bay
  • Cairn Cul Ri Albainn, Isle of Mull
  • Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post, Kinbrace
  • Roman Signal Station, Rubers Law
  • The Atlantic Wall, Sheriffmuir
  • Inchkeith Island, Firth of Forth
  • North Sutor Battery, Cromarty Firth
  • John Randolph, Torrisdale Bay, Sutherland
  • Cramond Island, Firth of Forth
  • Garva Bridge, General Wade’s Military Road
  • Ardoch Roman Fort, Braco
• Sheltered
  • The Bone Caves, Inchnadamph
  • Peanmeanach, Ardnish Pensinsula
  • Cracknie Souterrain, Borgie Forest, Sutherland
  • ‘The Bothy’, Isle of Staffa
  • Coire Gabhail, ‘The Lost Valley’, Glencoe
  • Hermit’s Castle, Achmelvich
  • Shiaba, Isle of Mull
  • Northshield Rings, Eddleston
  • Mingulay Village, Outer Hebrides
  • The Sgurr, Isle of Eigg
  • Moine House, Sutherland
  • Mavisbank, Loanhead
  • Cove Harbour, Berwickshire
  • Tap O’ Noth, Rhynie
  • The Shepherd’s House, Pentland Hills
• Postscript
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Index