The Hazel Tree

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  • Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Tirefuir broch on the Isle of Lismore

    October 10, 2019

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Kintraw’s lonely watcher

    June 19, 2014

    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015

    Rosslyn Castle – falling shadows

    April 1, 2016
  • Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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