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

    A morning in Kilmartin Glen

    March 17, 2018 /

    A quiet walk around some of my favourite places - Nether Largie and Temple Wood

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    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

    Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard

    February 16, 2016
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    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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    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016

    The mystery of the Kilchoan Cross

    February 27, 2013
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen

    April 25, 2016 /

    We might have forgotten what went on there, but we're still drawn to stone circles like moths to a flame - and this one in Kilmartin Glen is certainly alluring

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    The Tuilyies stones

    October 25, 2015

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

"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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