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/
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
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Good morning BlueSky.
I’m a dendrochronologist based in Edinburgh and work all over Scotland.
Here’s one of the ancient oaks at Dalkeith - where I was able to build an oak chronology back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
I’ll be sharing more on old trees, woods & timber heritage in Scotland.
I’m a dendrochronologist based in Edinburgh and work all over Scotland.
Here’s one of the ancient oaks at Dalkeith - where I was able to build an oak chronology back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
I’ll be sharing more on old trees, woods & timber heritage in Scotland.
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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
#MedievalMonday
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
#MedievalMonday
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands 🏴 - formed under grazing pressure in long established parkland
#thicktrunktuesday
#ash #Highlands #Scotland
#thicktrunktuesday
#ash #Highlands #Scotland
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands 🏴 - formed under grazing pressure in long established parkland
#thicktrunktuesday
#ash #Highlands #Scotland
#thicktrunktuesday
#ash #Highlands #Scotland
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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
#Woodensday #logboat #oak #prehistory #scotland #archaeology
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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
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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
#ThickTrunkTuesday
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
My latest tree pal, a magnificent oak at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands 🏴
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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
#FindsFriday #museum #woodcarving #Amsterdam #Rijksmuseum
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
#FindsFriday #museum #woodcarving #Amsterdam #Rijksmuseum
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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
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One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral
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
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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
We have done Dendro here showing the oak stems originate in the early 19th century.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
St Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen 🏴. A favourite place of mine and quite unique.
#MedievalMonday #Aberdeen
#MedievalMonday #Aberdeen
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
St Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen 🏴. A favourite place of mine and quite unique.
#MedievalMonday #Aberdeen
#MedievalMonday #Aberdeen
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It's a little misty in Edinburgh this morning. Believe it or not, there's a medieval cathedral church in there somewhere...
#MedievalMonday #MistyMonday
#MedievalMonday #MistyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It's a little misty in Edinburgh this morning. Believe it or not, there's a medieval cathedral church in there somewhere...
#MedievalMonday #MistyMonday
#MedievalMonday #MistyMonday
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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
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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
St Andrew window in the west gable of St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
St Andrew window in the west gable of St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
Wooden sheep as seen in the fabulous Design Museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 last year.
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Wooden sheep as seen in the fabulous Design Museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 last year.
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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
#BlueSkyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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
#BlueSkyMonday