The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

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

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    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020

    The Prince’s Cave, Loch nan Uamh

    April 24, 2024
  • Dunvegan Castle

    August 6, 2013 /

    This fortress on Skye's north-west coast has stood guard over MacLeod lands for nearly 750 years; and it contains some spellbinding treasures!

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    Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015

    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    Morvern: black rocks and white water

    October 27, 2022
  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.

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    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015

    Croft Moraig: circle of light

    January 8, 2015

    World’s End Close, Edinburgh

    October 10, 2014
    New book

    "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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