The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016 /

    High on the hillside above Culross Palace are the peaceful ruins of a very old monastery with links to St Mungo and St Serf

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    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014
  • Book review: ‘Scotland’s Merlin’ by Tim Clarkson

    July 14, 2016 /

    “And in the battle of Arfderydd my torc was of gold…” From ‘Yr Afallennau’ (‘The Apples’), a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen I don’t know about you, but when somebody mentions the name ‘Merlin’, an image of a bearded sorcerer pops straight into my mind, quickly followed by King Arthur and several valiant Knights of the Round Table.   Add a couple of fire-breathing dragons, a gleaming but inaccessible sword, and a darkly beautiful villainess, and by this time I’m probably thinking about re-watching the excellent TV series starring Colin Morgan in the title role. I have always been interested in the theories about the origins of Merlin, the…

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Pin-feather painting – a new level

    June 14, 2012

    Book review: ‘Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age’ by Tim Clarkson

    January 23, 2015
  • Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South

    July 7, 2016 /

    Stepping down through the layers of time into the darkness of a Neolithic chambered cairn

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    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014

    St Mary’s College in St Andrews

    September 23, 2014
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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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