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,  Megalithic sites

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019 /

    On a windswept hillside in Ardnamurchan, this ancient grave is linked in local lore with a Viking ruler

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    Drumlanrig Castle: unbridled splendour

    October 6, 2014

    World’s End Close, Edinburgh

    October 10, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019 /

    Memories of Viking longships haunt this tiny island of windswept sandy bays and cryptic stones

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    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Iona’s timeless haven

    February 9, 2012

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013
  • History

    The Lewis Chessmen

    September 21, 2016 /

    Over 800 years old and still full of character, these wonderful little pieces in the National Museum of Scotland will grab your attention and steal your heart

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    The mystery of the Kilchoan Cross

    February 27, 2013

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 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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