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

    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020 /

    A tale of skulduggery and honour is attached to the place-name of Port Mhic Isaaic

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    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019

    Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018 /

    In March we braved the wet weather to inspect medieval carved stones in Kilmartin Glen...

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    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Dunchraigaig: the darkness of time

    October 18, 2013 /

    Set within a copse of trees, this 4,000-year-old burial chamber once lay at the heart of the people who lived in Kilmartin Glen.

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    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017
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"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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