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,  Latest Feature

    Castle Dounie

    March 26, 2021 /

    Breathtaking views from this Iron Age hill fort in Knapdale

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    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016
  • History

    Tirefuir broch on the Isle of Lismore

    October 10, 2019 /

    The ruins of this once-magnificent stone structure can be found on Lismore's east coast

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    Croft Moraig: circle of light

    January 8, 2015

    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020
  • History

    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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    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    The Tuilyies stones

    October 25, 2015

"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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