The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • About The Hazel Tree
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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,  Megalithic sites

    The Devil’s Arrows: shafts of darkness

    August 12, 2015 /

    The people who put up these standing stones in North Yorkshire were obviously thinking big - but what on earth are those grooves all about?

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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The deer stone

    April 6, 2021

    Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag

    August 14, 2014
  • History

    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015 /

    I've always been fascinated by dowsing - and on this two-day course by Western Geomancy I finally got to try it for myself!

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    The dark mill of Coilebar

    August 25, 2018

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Ellen’s Isle

    September 16, 2015
  • Reviews

    Book review: ‘The Old Straight Track’ by Alfred Watkins

    July 14, 2014 /

    One of my very favourite books… for many people, 'The Old Straight Track' will need no introduction. This is how the idea of ley lines first dawned on the world, thanks to a humble man from Herefordshire.

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    A new treasure: ‘Trees and How They Grow’ by G Clarke Nuttall

    May 25, 2015

    Book review: ‘In Search of the Dark Ages’ by Michael Wood

    February 2, 2014

    Book review: ‘The New Sylva’

    May 7, 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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