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Dr Coralie Mills
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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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Some stunning modern stained glass in The Barony Hall in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#StainedGlassSunday
#Glasgow
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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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
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Heddon-on-the-Wall Women’s Institute. Cute!

#AdoorableThursday
#BlueSkyPhotography
A colour photo of the exterior of the entrance to the WI hall a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall. All timber hall. Forest Green painted double boarded door within a brown boarded gable of the porch. A sign above the door says ‘Heddon-on-the-Wall Women’s Institute’. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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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
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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St Andrew window in the west gable of St Andrew’s Church, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.

#StainedGlassSunday
Close up colour photo of St Andrew depicted in stained glass. The saint wears bright green and purple clothing and holds the saltire cross set against a sky blue background. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2025
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Wooden sheep as seen in the fabulous Design Museum in Helsinki 🇫🇮 last year.

#FindsFriday would be good for #Woodensday
A small modernist model of a sheep made of pale wooden balls for its coat, a larger wooden ball for its head and with white wooden horns. Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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A doorway in Arrecife, #Lanzarote. One of my favourite places.

#AdoorableThursday
Colour photo of a teal coloured narrow exterior double door with fading paintwork set against the white and black painted wall around it. A single Number 5 blue and white tile above it Copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2024
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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The magnificent Birnam sycamore in Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with me for scale.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Photo of a sycamore trunk and lower limbs in green leafiness. The trunk must be about 5m girth or more. I look quite tiny stood beside it. Photo copyright Gordon Turnbull 2024
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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
A view of St Giles Cathedral looking east to see the pale stone west gable and crown topped tower set against a cloudless bright blue sky. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2023
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The perpendicular windows in the west gable of St Machar’s Cathedral, old #Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#StainedGlassSunday
#SundayStainedGlass
The photo is taken from inside the church looking up at five tall narrow stained glass windows separated from each other by narrow vertical courses of stonework making a strong striped image. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2022
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Me at the doorway to Jessie M King’s house in Kirkcudbright 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love her Arts & Crafts illustrations, jewellery, pots, paintings, fabrics etc. Saw a fab exhibition of her work at the lovely gallery in Kirkcudbright.

#AdoorableThursday #art #crafts #Scotland
Me wearing a bright green jacket stood at the entrance to a passageway to the close where Jessie M King’s and her group of other women artists worked together
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Keyholes in the ancient cellar door of Neidpath #Castle near #Peebles, #Scottish #Borders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland
Close up of wooden door with a smattering of five different size keyholes in it, testament to it being an ancient door. Photo copyright ©️ Coralie Mills 2020
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Ardura Community Forest, Mull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Mull & Iona Community Trust engaged us to find out the age of oaks which had been felled in the 1960s when the Sitka spruce plantation was created by the Forestry Commission. They were mostly around 200 years old.
#dendrochronology #ThickTrunkTuesday #Mull
October 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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My colleague @HamishDarrah.bsky.social recording historic timbers from Black Bull Close, an urban renewal project in Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 by community enterprise The Ridge. Many of the lintels are re-used oak ships’ timbers. Yet to do the dendrochronology
#FindsFriday #buildings #timber #heritage #archaeology
Hamish is standing looking at a timber lintel on the floor and recording woodworking details. Photo copyright Coralie Mills
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Double door west entrance to the fabulous St Machar’s, Old Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#AdoorableThursday
A round headed carved stone archway with two red doors
October 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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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
May 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The welcoming Art Deco entrance to the lovely heated seawater outdoor pool in #Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#AdoorableThursday
#Lido #Swimming
#Scotland
Colour photo of the entrance to Stonehaven outdoor pool, a symmetrical design into a one storey building - with blue, yellow and white paintwork framing a rectangular door and leading to it a set of semi-circular steps painted orange and yellow, the orange matching the orange of the tiled roof. All under a blue summer sky. Photo Copyright Coralie Mills 2022
May 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM