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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    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020
  • 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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    The Tuilyies stones

    October 25, 2015

    Croft Moraig: circle of light

    January 8, 2015

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012
  • 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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    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016
    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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