Blountfield, Dovecot

Explorer Tom Rockhall Moor is home to a Bronze Age cairn that makes a weird groaning sound when the wind hits it just right. It’s not haunted, or at least that’s what I tell myself so I can sleep without checking under my bed every five minutes. Just imagine a pile of old stones screaming like a teenager who needs a snack. Bring a flask and pretend you own the place.

Explorer Tom Rockhall is a seventeenth-century hotel and medieval tower house that would probably describe itself as 'a charming establishment with excellent views and a slightly mysterious past' if it had a website. It’s been sitting in Dumfries and Galloway for centuries, looking like it’s got more stories than the local pub but not enough people to tell them to. The whole place feels like

Explorer Tom Cleughbrae in Dumfries and Galloway has a Roman coin that the map makers got completely wrong about because they were looking at it upside down or something similarly stupid. It’s just a small piece of metal that probably belonged to someone who was having a really bad day two thousand years ago. The accuracy is ten metres, so if you

Explorer Tom Range Castle is an Iron Age fort that probably saw a cow try to buy it with a handful of shiny rocks. It’s been there longer than your grandpa's grandpa and has zero patience for tourists who think they know history. Spot the oldest stone and give it a name.