The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020 /

    Tucked away in the industrial outskirts of Fort William is this gaunt fortress that once stood at the heart of Scottish power

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    The Lerags Cross

    July 2, 2017

    Rock art at Cairnbaan

    June 28, 2020

    Looking for the yew of Easragan

    May 20, 2019
  • History

    The Stone of Scone: a mystery in two parts

    July 12, 2012 /

    I wondered how many of you would know the answer to my latest history quiz, which asked which Scottish monarch was the last to be crowned on the Stone of Destiny, otherwise known as the Stone of Scone. The answer, as about 43% of you knew, was John Balliol, in 1292.  Sadly for John, history remembers him as a weak and ineffectual king, both as a ruler of his people and as a commander of Scottish forces.  It may well have been, of course, that he just didn’t want to be king, because he ended up fleeing to France and spending the rest of his days there. The stone which…

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    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016

    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014

"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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