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

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020 /

    Are the ships of a king's fleet immortalised in these curious carvings on the Isle of Luing?

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    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Megalithic sites

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020 /

    A vivid tale is woven around these standing stones at Carse in Knapdale

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    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020

    Inchbuie: an island of dreams

    January 15, 2013

    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015
  • History

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018 /

    900 years ago, Magnus Barefoot saw this quiet harbour as a means to an end...

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    Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015

    Dunadd: behold the king!

    June 14, 2015

    The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen

    March 13, 2016
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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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