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  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Rock art at Ormaig

    October 18, 2018

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

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    Smailholm Tower

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  • The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016 /

    The ash is a beguiling tree, elegant in all seasons, and mother to a host of legends

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    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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