Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/2

... that the ceremonial Dunvegan Cup (pictured) was created in 1493 at the request of the wife of an Irish lord, and is today an heirloom of the chiefs of the Scottish Clan Macleod?
... that a herd of Highland cattle is known as a fold?
... that according to local tradition on Coll, the now-ruinous dun of Dùn an Achaidh was once the fortress of the son of a Norse king named Olaf?
...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?

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