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,  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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    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Standing stone near Loch Ederline

    July 27, 2017 /

    Checking fields at random around Kilmartin Glen will reveal any number of cairns and standing stones. This one, right by the roadside, was still a surprising find.

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    Remembering the magic of mistletoe

    December 8, 2019

    Ellen’s Isle

    September 16, 2015

    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen

    April 25, 2016 /

    We might have forgotten what went on there, but we're still drawn to stone circles like moths to a flame - and this one in Kilmartin Glen is certainly alluring

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    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016

    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015
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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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