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
  • 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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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019
  • Carved crosses,  History

    The Lerags Cross

    July 2, 2017 /

    Standing beside the road to Lerags in Argyll is this beautiful late medieval cross

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    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012

    Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time

    March 11, 2012

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013
  • Carved crosses,  History

    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016 /

    Who lived in this extraordinary glen, 1300 years ago? One man who did was St Adamnan, and this simple cross remembers his kindness...

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    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016

    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

"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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