Every timber tells a story: Exploring dendrochronology in Dunbar Join experts Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah for an afternoon exploring dendrochronology and historic woodworking on the High Street.

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

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

#woodensday

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

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

A wooden round-headed double door - has a lattice pattern with studs - Southwell Minster photo copyright Coralie Mills 2023

Southwell Minster

#adoorablethursday

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

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

#thicktrunktuesday

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

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

#woodensday

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

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

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

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

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

#AdoorableThursday

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

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

#woodensday

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

#thicktrunktuesday

A wooden double door and frame with distressed teal coloured paint within a wall of white above and black below Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2020

Adorable doorway in Arrecife, Lanzarote.

#AdoorableThursday

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

#ThickTrunkTuesday

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 👇
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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

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

#StainedGlassSunday

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

'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart

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

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

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

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

#thicktrunktuesday

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

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

Yes that’s a strong possibility

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.

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

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

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

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

#StainedGlassSunday
#Glasgow