Dr Coralie Mills

Colour photo of a wooden lattice like double door within a Romanesque round headed doorway. A smaller door within the left side of the large door is barely visible. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2023

A door within a door at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England

#AdoorableThursday

A colour photo taken from the rear end of the logboat on display. The slot for a missing transom can be seen on this end of the boat. The massive nature of the logboat is evident. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2023

The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It was found in the Tay Estuary near Perth and dates to around 1000 BC, in the Late Bronze Age.

#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology

A dugout boat which was found during excavations on the banks of the River Witham, near Fiskerton in Lincolnshire. Dating to the Iron Age, the boat was worked from a single oak tree trunk. Now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #LincolnMuseum

Colour photo of an oak with a thick trunk c 4m girth with a large open crown of branches emerging about 2m up. Possibility that it was pollarded in the past. Being hugged by a woman- me. Backdrop of other oak and birch trees in autumn colours. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025

My latest tree pal, a magnificent oak at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#ThickTrunkTuesday

I AM GROOT!

#Photography #Woodland #Trees #Nature #Sunshine #ThickTrunkTuesday #Tuesday #TreeLife #Cannock #Ent #Autumn #Fall #November #OMSystem

Sculpture of a yellow pumpkin with black dots on a quay next to water with hills on a distant shore behind, all in dim light

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃

Monochrome photograph featuring three white women water skiing in pointed hats, one woman stands on the shoulders of the other two

Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt
#Halloween #FridayFeeling !

Photo of two prayer nuts. They are about the size of a walnut and set in silver. They are hinged and displayed open to show the intricate carving within. Photo Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

About the size of a walnut these ‘Prayer nuts’ are delicately carved biblical scenes in boxwood. Made in the Netherlands in the first half of the 16th Century. On display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

#FindsFriday #museum #woodcarving #Amsterdam #Rijksmuseum

We met a chap there who had walked the whole route with his dog.

A colour photo of the exterior of the entrance to the WI hall a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall. All timber hall. Forest Green painted double boarded door within a brown boarded gable of the porch. A sign above the door says ‘Heddon-on-the-Wall Women’s Institute’. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025

Heddon-on-the-Wall Women’s Institute. Cute!

#AdoorableThursday
#BlueSkyPhotography

Timber door with ogee-headed wicket (smaller doorway through its fabric), set within massive, neatly dressed doorway, also of timber. The information panel by it reads: DOOR AND DOOR FRAME About 1500-30 The survival of this doorway is due in part to the robust construction, with thick broad planks strengthened by carved uprights and large iron nails. The door comes from a fine timber-framed house in Ipswich. England, Ipswich Oak Given by Sir George Donaldson Museum no. A.25-1913

Detached from its building but still looking fab, this early 16th-century door and doorway from Ipswich has a few features stylistically typical for that era, including vertical moulded fillets of wood hiding the joints of the timber boards on its outer face. From v&a. #ADoorAbleThursday

One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral

Correction ‘Dumfriesshire’
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A colour photo looking up slope and a large twisted old oak with three large stems. Winter photo so the oak is not in leaf and shows the form of the tree clearly. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2023

A magnificent multi-stem oak in Borders Forest Trust’s Dairy Wood historic wood pasture at Ericstane just north of Moffat, Dumfrisshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

A colour photo of the exterior of St Machar’s from the south west against a vivid clear blue sky. Shows the twin towers with steeple roofs flanking the west gables. Shows the southern aisle below the nave roof. Many gravestones in the foreground. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

St Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. A favourite place of mine and quite unique.

#MedievalMonday #Aberdeen

It's a little misty in Edinburgh this morning. Believe it or not, there's a medieval cathedral church in there somewhere...

#MedievalMonday #MistyMonday

The Old Courthouse at Hawkshead in Cumbria. Probably dating to the C15th, the building is all that remains of the monastic grange associated with Furness Abbey. It would have served as the ‘local’ centre for managing the abbey’s lands and affairs. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday

Close up colour photo of St Andrew depicted in stained glass. The saint wears bright green and purple clothing and holds the saltire cross set against a sky blue background. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025

St Andrew window in the west gable of St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.

#StainedGlassSunday

A small modernist model of a sheep made of pale wooden balls for its coat, a larger wooden ball for its head and with white wooden horns. Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024

Wooden sheep as seen in the fabulous Design Museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 last year.

#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday

Colour photo of a teal coloured narrow exterior double door with fading paintwork set against the white and black painted wall around it. A single Number 5 blue and white tile above it Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024

A doorway in Arrecife, #Lanzarote. One of my favourite places.

#AdoorableThursday

Thank you Rena 🌳💍💚

Yes I think it probably has been in the long distant past

Photo of a sycamore trunk and lower limbs in green leafiness. The trunk must be about 5m girth or more. I look quite tiny stood beside it. Photo copyright Gordon Turnbull 2024

The magnificent Birnam sycamore in Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Yes, surprised more by the provenance than by the date. Massive oak timbers brought from NE Scotland especially for this construction. Very likely the oak was from the Royal Forest of Darnaway and its supply related to the royal patronage of St Giles by James II and his queen Mary of Guelders

A view of St Giles Cathedral looking east to see the pale stone west gable and crown topped tower set against a cloudless bright blue sky. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2023

St Giles Cathedral in #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hidden inside the bell tower is a five storey timber frame built with oak from north east Scotland which I have #dendro dated to AD1459/1460. The only building in Edinburgh to have native oak, most historic buildings have Scandi imports

#BlueSkyMonday

The photo is taken from inside the church looking up at five tall narrow stained glass windows separated from each other by narrow vertical courses of stonework making a strong striped image. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

The perpendicular windows in the west gable of St Machar’s Cathedral, old #Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#StainedGlassSunday
#SundayStainedGlass

Me wearing a bright green jacket stood at the entrance to a passageway to the close where Jessie M King’s and her group of other women artists worked together

Me at the doorway to Jessie M King’s house in Kirkcudbright 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love her Arts & Crafts illustrations, jewellery, pots, paintings, fabrics etc. Saw a fab exhibition of her work at the lovely gallery in Kirkcudbright.

#AdoorableThursday #art #crafts #Scotland

Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought

Five Merveille du Jour moths found by Alison Averis in her moth trap here in SE Scotland on the morning of 14th October 2025. Background: bark with lichens.

My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.

Close up of wooden door with a smattering of five different size keyholes in it, testament to it being an ancient door. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2020

Keyholes in the ancient cellar door of Neidpath #Castle near #Peebles, #Scottish #Borders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland