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Roderick Bale

@dendrorodbale.bsky.social

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Dendrochronology of living trees/ buildings/archaeological wood/ tree-ring stable isotopes. Based in Wales

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Shipping marks on a basement ceiling conifer joist at Cambrian place Swansea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Dated to first quarter of the 19th century

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dendro samples from Gloucester Chambers, maritime quarter Swansea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy new year (s)

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pith hit! 🍾

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

An 1860s oak, in what was formerly a field, and some 1960s fir, chestnut and beech 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Commute 🚲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

titanium n wood

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Commute

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here’s one of quite a few I’ve worked on. One from the sapwood rings of a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 building timber, and one from the heartwood of the same core. The timber is from a tree that was at least 260 years old when felled. The outer 99 rings contain a few (almost unmeasurable) sections and don’t date.

Suppressed oak tree-ring growth in the sapwood

Suppressed oak heartwood tree-ring growth

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

100 year old oak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿and a 2009 voodoo d jab 🚲

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Llanerchaeron estate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 beech tree boat graffiti

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Allt Lanlas Llanerchaeron estate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. First trees I did dendro on back in 2001 (+few times since). Most oaks planted late 1770s. A few larch date to 1840s.Wondering why @nationaltrust.bsky.social seem to be cutting the ivy from the trees. It’s not harming the oaks + ivy is of high ecological value?

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sweet chestnut near Lampeter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 . One of around 15 trees in these woods I took increment cores from in 2017. This tree has an inner ring of 1927, with at least 10 yrs more to pith. Average ring width of 0.45cm, inner few rings are 1cm+

A sweet chestnut tree near Lampeter Wales that is at least 100 years old

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