The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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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    Iona’s timeless haven

    February 9, 2012

    Silent voices of Arichonan

    August 8, 2018

    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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    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014

    Castle Dounie

    March 26, 2021

    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013
  • History

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

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

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    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020
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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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