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

    The deer stone

    April 6, 2021 /

    Sometimes the most fascinating things are the hardest to find...

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    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on

    August 16, 2012

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018 /

    In March we braved the wet weather to inspect medieval carved stones in Kilmartin Glen...

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014
  • Carved crosses,  History

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016 /

    The Picts liked to blend drama, devotion and mystery in their sculptures - or so it seems to us now - and this is one of their most spectacular offerings

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    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    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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