The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

    These impressive buildings were designed to last - but what were they used for?

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    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    Kintraw’s lonely watcher

    June 19, 2014

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020
  • Carved crosses,  History

    The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013 /

    Dunnichen, Dun Nechtain, Nechtansmere - take your pick (or should that be Pict?) We don't know where this battle took place, but we know one thing: the Picts were delighted with the outcome!

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    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012

    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016
  • Carved crosses,  History

    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012 /

    Who were the Picts? Where did they come from, what did they believe, and why did they disappear? And what on earth do their curious carvings represent? Sorry, I can't really answer any of these questions!

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time

    March 11, 2012

    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018

    "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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