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.
January 22, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Rather beautiful oak at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Rewilding Centre 🏴 with me for scale.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
January 20, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Rather beautiful oak at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Rewilding Centre 🏴 with me for scale.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland
As 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...
[HBP#22] - Coralie Mills - Discovering Scotland's Past with Dendrochronology
Podcast Episode · Heritage Buildings Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 1h 18m
podcasts.apple.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland
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
#ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub
#trees
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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
#ThickTrunkTuesday #treeclub
#trees
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
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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...
Read it here 👇
churchheritage.scot/2025/11/26/h...
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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...
Read it here 👇
churchheritage.scot/2025/11/26/h...
St Andrew - on St Andrew’s Day - in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
St Andrew - on St Andrew’s Day - in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
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