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,  Scottish castles

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015 /

    In the 13th century, no one approached Dunstaffnage Castle without a very good reason. It still fills you with a sense of awe...

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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015

    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015 /

    Peaceful woodlands enclose this little church on the coast of Argyll; but in December 1462 a wedding here was about to turn into a funeral...

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    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015
  • Geology

    Coastal relics from the last Ice Age

    April 14, 2014 /

    A natural arch and sea stack left high and dry after the ice retreated... with links to a warrior of Celtic legend

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    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015

    Fossils at Carsaig Bay

    September 18, 2015

    Echoes of smugglers on Cornwall’s north coast – a guest post by Rachel Bates

    March 1, 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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