Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at Eilean nam Ban ( Kenmore on Loch Tay ) in July, 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.

Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland

Replica Crannóg on Loch TayIn reality, crannogs took on many different forms and methods of construction based upon what was available in the immediate landscape ; there is no single " correct " way to construct a crannog.

The earliest construction of a crannog is the completely artificial Neolithic islet of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat on North Uist in Scotland.

Originally based on the still-existent village of Inverlochy, the town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen, on the shores of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.

The RN's nuclear submarine base opened for Resolution class Polaris submarines at the expanded Faslane Naval Base on the Gare Loch.

Initially successful, the colonists were driven out by local forces commanded by Murdoch and Neil MacLeod, who based their forces on Bearasaigh in Loch Ròg.

He threw a haggis on the island of Inchmurrin, Loch Lomond, in August 1984.

One of the most prominent exposures is along Loch Fad on Bute.

The term " monster " was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness Courier.

These stories soon reached the national ( and later the international ) press, which described a " monster fish ", " sea serpent ", or " dragon ", eventually settling on " Loch Ness Monster ".

Believers in the Loch Ness Monster often point to this story, which notably takes place on the River Ness rather than the loch itself, as evidence for the creature's existence as early as the 6th century.

In 1993, the makers of Discovery Communications's documentary Loch Ness Discovered analysed the uncropped image and found a white object was visible in every version of the photo, implying it was on the negative.

Edwards spends 60 hours per week on the loch aboard his boat, Nessie Hunter IV, in which he takes tourists for a ride on the lake, and claims to have searched for the Loch Ness monster for 26 years.

Captain James Fraser was employed as a supervisor, and remained by the Loch afterwards, taking cine film ( which is now lost ) on 15 September 1934.

Under the sponsorship of World Book Encyclopedia, pilot Dan Taylor deployed the Viperfish at Loch Ness on 1 June 1969.

These events were later shown on a program called Loch Ness Discovered, in conjunction with analyses and enhancements of the 1960 Dinsdale Film, the Surgeon's Photo, and the Rines Flipper Photo.

The Rosses held what is now Easter Ross ; the Munros the small tract around Ben Wyvis, including Dingwall ; the Macleods Lewis, and, in the mainland, the district between Loch Maree and Loch Torridon ; the Macdonalds of Glengarry, Coigach, and the district between Strome Ferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, and the Mackenzies the remainder.

Great Bernera lies in Loch Roag on the north-west coast of Lewis and is linked to it by a road bridge.

The district known locally in Lewis as Uig is also called West Uig and is broadly the area west of Little Loch Roag.

Ruined dun in Loch Steinacleit on the Isle of Lewis

Loch Erisort () is an 8-mile-long narrow sea inlet on the east coast of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.

Park (), also known as South Lochs, is a huge area of land connected to the rest of Lewis only by a narrow neck between Loch Seaforth and Loch Erisort.

Gravir ( Grabhar in Scottish Gaelic ), is a village on the shore of Loch Odhairn ( a sea loch ) in the Park district of the Isle of Lewis.

On the Lewis side, it would enter the mouth of Loch Odhairn at the fish farm and run up the length of the sealoch under the shore at its head, by the old schoolhouse, and then be buried across crofts to the hilltop to the converter station.

The Bull made Aberdeen one of the four suffragan sees of the Archbishopric of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and defined as its territory " the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, Banff, Elgin or Moray, Nairn, Ross ( except Lewis in the Hebrides ), Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and that portion of Inverness which lies to the north of a straight line drawn from the most northerly point of Loch Luing to the eastern boundary of the said county of Inverness, where the counties of Aberdeen and Banff join.

* 1934 – The " Surgeon's Photograph ", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail ( in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax ).

Two miles northwest is Loch Chon, at 90m above the sea, long, and about half a mile broad.

It drains by the Avon Dhu to Loch Ard, which is drained in turn by the Forth.

Aberfoyle describes itself as The Gateway to the Trossachs, and is well situated for visitors to access attractions such as Loch Lomond and Inchmahome Priory at the Lake of Menteith.

Aberfoyle is also part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.

The majority of mainstream criticism of cryptozoology is thus directed towards the search for megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, which appear often in popular culture, but for which there is little or no scientific support.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.

Mallaig, once the busiest herring port in Europe, is famous for its traditionally smoked kippers, as well as Stornoway kippers and Loch Fyne kippers.

The Loch Ness Monster () is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

This picture is the first known image allegedly taken of the Loch Ness Monster.

Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.

However, Roland Watson, a cryptozoologist and Loch Ness Monster researcher, has criticized this analysis, stating that the object in the image is very unlikely to be a bloom of algae and zooplankton, since algae needs sunlight to grow, and the waters of Loch Ness are very dark, and nearly devoid of sunlight, 75 feet down.

A subsequent investigation by Loch Ness researcher, Steve Feltham, suggests that the object in the water is in fact a fibreglass hump used previously in a National Geographic documentary which Edwards had participated in.

On 2 May 2001, two conger eels were found on the shore of the loch ; as conger eels are saltwater animals and Loch Ness is freshwater, it is believed that they were put there to be seen as " Mini-Nessies ".