Went to see the Ruthven Cross on a recent visit to #Dumfries & Galloway. It didn’t disappoint. Wondering if similar monuments were ever made in wood.
Dr Coralie Mills
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
I’m 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/
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Every timber tells a story: Exploring dendrochronology in Dunbar
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Spectacular old multi-stem oak at Ericstane near Moffat 🏴 in the care of Borders Forest Trust. #woodensday
Delighted to have the chance to write this blog for Murray, with a focus on #dendrochronology in and around Stirling
DDr Murray Cook@stirlingdigger.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Have you ever wondered about tree rings and archaeology but been afraid to ask? My latest blog has all the answers from an expert! @dendrochronicle.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
A skirted ash tree at Achnacarry, Lochaber 🏴 In parkland and probably formed under grazing pressure #thicktrunktuesday
Some of my samples from Dalkeith Old Oaks used to build a 450 year long oak chronology for South East #Scotland. Publication imminent. #FindsFriday #dendrochronology
Granny pine at RSPB Abernethy reserve 🏴 which bears the evidence it was used to make fir candles in the past #thicktrunktuesday
The Vasa ship museum - from a holiday in Stockholm 🇸🇪 a few years ago- highly recommended #woodensday
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
Mark Walters@mark-walters.bsky.social · 7mo agoAs always, a fascinating podcast episode with Dendrochronoligist Dr. Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social on her work with Scottish woodlands and historic timber buildings podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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...
St Andrew - on St Andrew’s Day - in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland #StainedGlassSunday
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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
Some stunning modern stained glass in The Barony Hall in Glasgow 🏴 #StainedGlassSunday #Glasgow
An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands 🏴 - formed under grazing pressure in long established parkland #thicktrunktuesday #ash #Highlands #Scotland
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
My latest tree pal, a magnificent oak at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands 🏴 #ThickTrunkTuesday
