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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    Richard of York gave battle…

    September 30, 2012

    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014
  • History

    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018 /

    With sweeping views across the sea from the Craignish peninsula, this hill fort seems to be half-immersed in legend

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    Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

    May 2, 2021
  • History

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

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

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    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020

    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014
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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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