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
  • 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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    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    The stone circles of Fortingall

    May 11, 2014 /

    Stirred by recent human activity, these ancient circles present an enduring puzzle. Sometimes it really is better to leave stones unturned!

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    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014 /

    This yew tree in a Perthshire churchyard may be 5,000 years old: it's astounding to think how much human history it has witnessed in its lifetime.

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    Fresh leaves in old woodlands

    May 8, 2018

    Bird’s foot trefoil

    August 2, 2014

    The marsh fritillary

    June 26, 2013

"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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