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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Spectacular old multi-stem oak at Ericstane near Moffat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in the care of Borders Forest Trust. #woodensday

The three massive twisting stems are sunlit and green with moss and lichens Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Interesting. I wonder if it was rescued when the painted ceiling was saved.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Delighted to have the chance to write this blog for Murray, with a focus on #dendrochronology in and around Stirling

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A skirted ash tree at Achnacarry, Lochaber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In parkland and probably formed under grazing pressure #thicktrunktuesday

A maiden ash with a swollen base covered in moss. To left of photo with a row of similar trees beyond. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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

A round table top covered in slices of oak, mostly quarters or narrower wedges. Bright pink tape round one sample. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A rather handsome windmill at Seurasaari open air folk museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 #woodensday

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

For candles are thin strips of resinous wood which were used for lighting by those who could not afford wax candles.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Granny pine at RSPB Abernethy reserve 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 which bears the evidence it was used to make fir candles in the past #thicktrunktuesday

Thick trunk with low branches of a Scots pine granny tree. The bark near base shows an area of stripped bark with axe marks in the wood beneath. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Twin doors at St Machars cathedral, Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #AdoorableThursday

Stone gable south end of the nave with two arched red doors within a Romanesque semi-circular headed arch. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2021

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Vasa ship museum - from a holiday in Stockholm 🇸🇪 a few years ago- highly recommended #woodensday

A view of the wooden ship the Vasa looking along the deck to the prow.,Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2019

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The mighty Birnam sycamore 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale #thicktrunktuesday

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Rather beautiful oak at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Rewilding Centre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale. #ThickTrunkTuesday

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Really 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.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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 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

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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...

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

St Andrew - on St Andrew’s Day - in St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland #StainedGlassSunday

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

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart

Print featuring a forest slope in snow with trees trunks causing long shadows in the low winter light

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a stream in a lush mossy forest with trees and ferns

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Two ancient Sweet chestnut trees near Haddington 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on a crisp winter day #thicktrunktuesday

The dark outlines of two thick trunked stag-branched trees in grassy parkland set against a clear blue winter sky. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2021

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Hi 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.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

A colour photo of St Mary’s parish church looking eastward to the nave, the transepts and central tower. In the foreground many gravestones. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thanks for the comment. I didn’t know who they were made by. There are several more windows by the same hand there.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Some stunning modern stained glass in The Barony Hall in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #StainedGlassSunday #Glasgow

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Yes I think it is the nibbling of epicormic shoots that forms a basal skirt over a long time

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

An ash with an impressive basal skirt at Achnacarry in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - formed under grazing pressure in long established parkland #thicktrunktuesday #ash #Highlands #Scotland

Colour photo of the straight trunk emerging from a skirt like bulging growth at its base set in grazed grassy parkland. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A door within a door at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England #AdoorableThursday

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 ©️ Coralie Mills 2023

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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 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 ©️ Coralie Mills 2023

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My latest tree pal, a magnificent oak at Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ThickTrunkTuesday

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 ©️ Coralie Mills 2025

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃

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

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt #Halloween #FridayFeeling !

Monochrome photograph featuring three white women water skiing in pointed hats, one woman stands on the shoulders of the other two

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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

Photo of two prayer nuts. They are about the size of a walnut and set in silver. They are hinged and displayed open to show the intricate carving within. Photo Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We met a chap there who had walked the whole route with his dog.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

Timber door with ogee-headed wicket (smaller doorway through its fabric), set within massive, neatly dressed doorway, also of timber. The information panel by it reads:

DOOR AND DOOR FRAME
About 1500-30
The survival of this doorway is due in part to the robust construction, with thick broad planks strengthened by carved uprights and large iron nails. The door comes from a fine timber-framed house in Ipswich.

England, Ipswich

Oak
Given by Sir George Donaldson
Museum no. A.25-1913

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Correction ‘Dumfriesshire’ 😊🌳💚

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

A colour photo looking up slope and a large twisted old oak with three large stems. Winter photo so the oak is not in leaf and shows the form of the tree clearly. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2023

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

St Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. A favourite place of mine and quite unique. #MedievalMonday #Aberdeen

A colour photo of the exterior of St Machar’s from the south west against a vivid clear blue sky. Shows the twin towers with steeple roofs flanking the west gables. Shows the southern aisle below the nave roof. Many gravestones in the foreground. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's a little misty in Edinburgh this morning. Believe it or not, there's a medieval cathedral church in there somewhere... #MedievalMonday #MistyMonday

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