There are individual galleries in the big museums of Edinburgh and Glasgow with more floor space than the Scottish Crannog Centre. But few are as compelling as this family-friendly attraction by Loch Tay, a beauty spot in Perthshire about a two-hour drive north of Scotland’s two largest metropolises (and an hour from the city of Perth).
Entertaining and educational, staffed by welcoming and personable characters, the centre immerses you in the Iron Age, a long-forgotten era, when many Scots would have lived in crannogs — stilted artificial islands mainly formed of timber and providing refuge from rival tribes and the bears and wolves that roamed wild in the forests of Alba, as this nation is called in Scottish Gaelic.
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