The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Nether Largie: secrets in stone

    October 2, 2013 /

    Neither a circle nor a row, the arrangement of stones at Nether Largie in Argyll is puzzling in the extreme. What were our ancestors thinking... and why were they so keen on carving those little cup shapes?

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    A walk to Barnakill

    October 9, 2021

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013
  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.

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    Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013

    Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South

    July 7, 2016

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019
  • Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013 /

    On the far north-western shores of the British Isles, this Iron Age broch stands guard over secrets that are lost to time...

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    Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016

    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015

    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016
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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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