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The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    A walk to RĂ­ Cruin Cairn

    September 28, 2019

    Morvern: black rocks and white water

    October 27, 2022

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012
  • Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Kintraw’s lonely watcher

    June 19, 2014

    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Nether Largie: secrets in stone

    October 2, 2013

    Tirefuir broch on the Isle of Lismore

    October 10, 2019

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019
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