The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014 /

    These impressive buildings were designed to last - but what were they used for?

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    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016
  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.

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    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022

    The Treshnish Isles

    July 5, 2021

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020
    New book

    "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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