The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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,  Wildlife & Nature

    Before the rain

    April 10, 2022 /

    Hidden treasures in the woods above Crinan: a carved stone, a Judgement Seat, a hill fort and the ruins of 'New York'

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    Dunchraigaig: the darkness of time

    October 18, 2013

    Richard of York gave battle…

    September 30, 2012

    Prehistoric rock art at Achnabreck

    April 5, 2016
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    The Watchman Stone

    September 22, 2020

    Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag

    August 14, 2014

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016
  • History,  Wildlife & Nature

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021 /

    Knapdale has so many quiet glens and bays, each harbouring forgotten stories

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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013

    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019
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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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