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Dr Coralie Mills
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
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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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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · Nov 13
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.
A single gnarled old oak in autumn colours within a woodland setting
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 9m
Double door west entrance to the fabulous St Machar’s, Old Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#AdoorableThursday
A round headed carved stone archway with two red doors
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 20h
A lovely ‘luggie’ stave vessel used to hold porridge and other liquid foods. Zoom in on the label for more info. In The Stewartry #Museum, #Kirkcudbright 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#Woodensday
A wooden stave built vessel with two metal bands and a vertical handle, in a display case
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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 1d
The Elfin King in the Witch Corner in the grounds of Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott's home near Melrose. This display area was inspired by Scott's own interest in folklore #woodensday
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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 1d
I spy mermaids playing harps. Chair in Totnes museum.

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d
Remains of the Mary Rose - Henry VIII’s warship that sunk in July 1545 at the Battle of the Solent. Raised in 1982, the ship is located and preserved at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #MaryRose #Portsmouth
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TMBtrain @hmcclaff.bsky.social · 2d
#thicktrunktuesday this tree guards the entrance to a bridge over the railway at Culloden Wood.
A large tree with a forked trunk stands at the entrance to a footbridge which is only visible to the viewer as 2 curved walls. To cross the bridge the tree must be stepped around. There is a large boulder at it's base. The tree is mostly in shade while the background is in full sunshine.
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Tall old Scots pine stand in Muirhead Wood near Dundee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Greatly varied historic policy woodland in the care of Woodland Trust Scotland. Great place for a walk with views of the silvery Tay from certain parts. An old drove road goes through it.

#thicktrunktuesday
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 4d
It would need a check on species and ring counts first in an assessment stage, then lots of samples if they were found to have dating potential. And funding! Historic map evidence probably a better guide.
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 4d
Delighted to analyse the timbers of this wreck in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The tree-rings revealed precise felling dates & timber provenance to target historical research on the when and where to ID the ship. Great teamwork with Wessex Archaeology, the Sanday community and my colleague @hamishdarrah.bsky.social
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Peter McKeague @peter-mckeague.bsky.social · Jul 23
Wessex Archaeology and @dendrochronicle.bsky.social
have identified the Sanday, Orkney wreck as that of a whaler -the Earl of Chatham, formerly HMS Hind, lost in 1788.
www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
250-year-old shipwreck discovered in Orkney gives up its secrets
Archaeologists undertake scientific analysis and community-led historical research to identify 250-year-old Sanday wreck.
www.historicenvironment.scot
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 5d
Oooo - please share, tree nerds

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Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 5d
📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 5d
Forgive me some parental showing off but my son Ciaran is in the DARE Academy’s winning Riverboat Games team. Their Galactic Postal Servitude game proved very popular with the judges and the public. Excellent team work, congrats to them all.
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Abertay University @abertayuni.bsky.social · 5d
That moment you find out you've won DARE Academy...

Congratulations to our DARE Academy 2025 winners - Riverboat Games! 🏆

Their game Galactic Postal Servitude wowed the judges 💫👽

Read more 👇

abertay.ac.uk/N2Yx

#DAREAcademy #DAREAcademy2025 @riverboatgames.bsky.social
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · Jun 4
Hear about our woodland history project at a very special Borders Forest Trust site. Delighted to participate in one of my fave programmes.

Catch Cat Patience of BFT and me at just after 31 mins and 1hour 14mins in
#woodland #history #dendrochronology #Scotland

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Out of Doors - Dendrochronology, Drones and a Dancing Gardener - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Monastic Archaeology Field School- Scotland @mafs-scot.bsky.social · May 16
It's nearly time to welcome our new cohort of students to the 2025 Field School! - We start field work from 9 June to 4 July so come find out what our students are doing, join our socials, and visit. Share our poster! Thanks to our hosts and partners @lindoresabbey.bsky.social #archaeology #monastic
three picture collage 1 picture shows a red sandstone rune of a medieval abbey 2- people sitting on the grass listening to an archaeologists 3 people standing around listening to an archaeologist point things out with qr code in bottom right corner
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 16
Absolutely, while he probably wore a knitted swimming costume he would surely be surprised by the woolly hats, all the specialist paraphernalia and the term ‘wild swimming’!
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 15
Looking that up immediately, thank you 🤩
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 15
Oh yes, so it is, thanks for the reminder 😊
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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · May 15
A simple door of salvaged timber keeps sheep out of this storage cleit on St Kilda #Doors #AdoorableThursday #StKilda
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 15
Ha, yes, my husband grew up in Nottinghamshire so I too have been let into the secret and hopefully am also pronouncing it correctly.
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 15
Ha ha, yes, love that idea - still the case that the trades don’t always speak to each other first!
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 15
Completely adorable door at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England, largely a 12th century Romanesque structure.

#AdoorableThursday
Photo of the exterior of a 12th century round arched doorway with five levels of decorative golden stonework around a double wooden boarded door with round top and intricate curling ironwork decoration. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2023
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 13
Part tree, part dragon?

One of many characterful ancient oaks at Lochwood, Dumfriesshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 around the site of a motte and a castle, historic Johnstone seat. Tree-ring records here extend back to the 16th century.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Photo taken under the summer canopy of a leafy oak woodland with a gnarled old oak in foreground. The curved trunk’s form appearing to have a dragon-like head facing to the left and with lower side branches like legs rearing to the left. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2019
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 12
Sounds fab, thanks for the info
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 11
Ooooooh that is gorgeous 🤩
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · May 11
Hi there, I’ll try to find out, I don’t know and it doesn’t say on their website but will be visiting again this summer. Love the sound of the Bowmore, Islay pool, is it an outdoor or indoor pool?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 2
'Shaping Spirit' driftwood and clay sculpture by Canadian artist Debra Bernier, known for working with natural materials #WomensArt
Sculpture created with wood and clay resembling a bear's face emergjng from a piece of roughly circular polished wood, the sculpture is in an outdoor forest setting
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