The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound

    July 26, 2019 /

    Not another chambered cairn! Yes, but this one comes with a twist...

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    Silent voices of Arichonan

    August 8, 2018
    Poldullie Bridge, Strathdon (2)

    In a nutshell: Poldullie Bridge, Strathdon

    November 22, 2014

    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019 /

    On a windswept hillside in Ardnamurchan, this ancient grave is linked in local lore with a Viking ruler

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    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Standing stone near Loch Ederline

    July 27, 2017 /

    Checking fields at random around Kilmartin Glen will reveal any number of cairns and standing stones. This one, right by the roadside, was still a surprising find.

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    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    Richard of York gave battle…

    September 30, 2012
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"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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