@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
Iβm a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies. https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
Stone gable south end of the nave with two arched red doors within a Romanesque semi-circular headed arch. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2021
Twin doors at St Machars cathedral, Aberdeen π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
#AdoorableThursday
A view of the wooden ship the Vasa looking along the deck to the prow.,Photo copyright Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2019
The Vasa ship museum - from a holiday in Stockholm πΈπͺ a few years ago- highly recommended
#woodensday
The mighty Birnam sycamore π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ with me for scale
#thicktrunktuesday
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 Lifeβs Dundreggan Rewilding Centre π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ with me for scale.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland
13.01.2026 12:47 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Really 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.
13.01.2026 08:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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 βDairy Woodβ at Borders Forest Trustβs 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 beΒ broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.
16.12.2025 13:31 β π 29 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Our Trust Chairperson, Prof Adam Cumming, has blogged for @churchheritage.bsky.social reflecting upon the special connections between Scotlandβs remarkable religious built heritage and the lands and the people that surround each site.
Read it here π
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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 Andrewβs Day - in St Andrewβs 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
23.11.2025 11:24 β π 860 π 115 π¬ 0 π 1
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
26.11.2025 07:09 β π 659 π 111 π¬ 0 π 5
The dark outlines of two thick trunked stag-branched trees in grassy parkland set against a clear blue winter sky. Photo copyright Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2021
Two ancient Sweet chestnut trees near Haddington π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ 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
18.10.2025 04:55 β π 980 π 176 π¬ 0 π 6Yes thatβs a strong possibility
17.11.2025 09:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hi 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.
17.11.2025 09:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A colour photo of St Maryβs parish church looking eastward to the nave, the transepts and central tower. In the foreground many gravestones. Photo copyright Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2022
St Maryβs Haddington π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ 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 didnβt know who they were made by. There are several more windows by the same hand there.
17.11.2025 07:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Some stunning modern stained glass in The Barony Hall in Glasgow π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
#StainedGlassSunday
#Glasgow
Yes I think it is the nibbling of epicormic shoots that forms a basal skirt over a long time
14.11.2025 07:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, thatβs it
11.11.2025 11:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Colour photo of the straight trunk emerging from a skirt like bulging growth at its base set in grazed grassy parkland. Photo copyright Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2024
An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ - 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 Β©οΈ 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 Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2023
The Carpow logboat on display in Perth Museum π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ 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. πΈ My own. #Woodensday #LincolnMuseum
29.10.2025 07:29 β π 130 π 19 π¬ 4 π 2
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 Β©οΈ Coralie Mills 2025
My latest tree pal, a magnificent oak at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
#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 π
31.10.2025 05:22 β π 418 π 77 π¬ 0 π 3
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 !