Dr Coralie Mills

A wooden double door and frame with distressed teal coloured paint within a wall of white above and black below Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2020

Adorable doorway in Arrecife, Lanzarote.

#AdoorableThursday

Rather beautiful oak at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Rewilding Centre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland

Really worth a visit. If travelling by car there is a small car park nearby in the BFT Corehead and Ericstane estate. The wood pasture is on the west side of the road just a little way before the car park. Be aware there are often cattle grazing there.

A massive twisting oak of massive size and with three large stems emerging from the ground. Possibly copied but other explanations are possible for its appearance. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

A massive multi-stem oak which #Dendrochronology revealed has an early 19th C stem origin date. It looks much older. This is in the wood pasture ‘Dairy Wood’ at Borders Forest Trust’s Corehead estate near Moffat.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub
#trees

A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.

Our Trust Chairperson, Prof Adam Cumming, has blogged for @churchheritage.bsky.social reflecting upon the special connections between Scotland’s remarkable religious built heritage and the lands and the people that surround each site.

Read it here 👇
churchheritage.scot/2025/11/26/h...

Colour photo taken from inside the church depicts an arched window with St Andrew in red and green robes holding the X-shaped cross, blue glass background. Looks very bright compared to the black surround. Photo:copyright Coralie Mills 2025

St Andrew - on St Andrew’s Day - in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland

#StainedGlassSunday

Print featuring a forest slope in snow with trees trunks causing long shadows in the low winter light

'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a stream in a lush mossy forest with trees and ferns

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

The dark outlines of two thick trunked stag-branched trees in grassy parkland set against a clear blue winter sky. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2021

Two ancient Sweet chestnut trees near Haddington 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on a crisp winter day

#thicktrunktuesday

Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between

More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Yes that’s a strong possibility

Hi Aoife, thanks, I shall do, the publication is at the refereeing stage just now and I think it will be published early in the New Year so I will send you a copy then.

A colour photo of St Mary’s parish church looking eastward to the nave, the transepts and central tower. In the foreground many gravestones. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

St Mary’s Haddington 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has some remarkable medieval oak timbers in the nave roof. My #dendrochronology work there dated them to the early 1400s and revealed them as Baltic baulks from the Gdansk region.

#MedievalMonday

Thanks for the comment. I didn’t know who they were made by. There are several more windows by the same hand there.

Some stunning modern stained glass in The Barony Hall in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#StainedGlassSunday
#Glasgow

Yes I think it is the nibbling of epicormic shoots that forms a basal skirt over a long time

Yes, that’s it

Colour photo of the straight trunk emerging from a skirt like bulging growth at its base set in grazed grassy parkland. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024

An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - formed under grazing pressure in long established parkland

#thicktrunktuesday
#ash #Highlands #Scotland

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