Dr Coralie Mills
@Dendrochronicle
Dendrochronologist, woodland heritage specialist. Tree-ring dating old buildings, wooded landscapes, archaeology in #Scotland. #dendrochronology
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Delighted to be working with Trees for Life on the Wild Pine Project. This week we took samples to work out tree ages in this previously unrecorded West Highland site. One tree even had axe marks where ‘fir candle’ tapers had been taken long ago. #dendrochronology #rewilding
Stobohope is a 1000 ha valley in the Peeblesshire hills, lying in a National Scenic Area. Rich in wildlife including black grouse and golden eagle. Scottish Forestry have awarded a £2m grant for 500 ha (5 km2) sitka spruce here without asking for an EIA. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-stobo-h…
Bursaries are available for the Vernacular Architecture Group's conference in Ulster on 11-15 June and we're still accepting applications but do be quick if you're interested - info at vag.org.uk/conferences.htm. Ulster Architectural Heritage Ulster Folk Museum Architecture at Ulster Traditional Building Skills NI Heritage Houses Of Ireland
Join our team! As part of 100 Years of Community Ownership, we are recruiting an Archive Assistant who will gather material from communities and ensure these digital materials remain authentic, accessible, and understandable in the future. buff.ly/3vGvcxi The National Lottery Heritage Fund
I created a cool web app using Ordnance Survey data - British Placename Mapper (placenames.rtwilson.com). It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map. #gis #geospatial
📢 Can you help us influence public policy so that *everyone* in Scotland benefits from walking?
We're recruiting a new Policy & Advocacy Manager to join our friendly staff team! 🥾
Apply now: theramblers-1651591500.teamtailor.com/jobs/3745274-p…
Deadline = 21 Apr.
sportscotland Scottish Environment LINK Active Scotland
Must Farm, with all its wonderful wood, published - and free open access. Brilliant. The specialist reports are in Volume 2 - see their second tweet under the one below for that link. Congratulations to the team at Cambridge Archaeological Unit
A wonderful Adam Weymouth report on indigenous strains of “bere” barley in the Scottish isles:
“This is a hard place to live…. [But] locked away in bere is a genetic richness that provides some answers about how we might live in balance with the world.” inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…
Attending a dendro-isotope workshop at Swansea Uni, led by Prof Neil Loader, with dendro participants from N Europe and UK. I presented on Scottish dendro challenges that dendro-isotopes could potentially assist with. Excellent workshop, impressive technique. #dendrochronology
BBC podcast by May Robson: 'The Isle of Ulva has... suffered more than most... Academic and land reform campaigner, Alastair McIntosh, shows us the links between Scotland’s violent history of dispossession and ... concentrated land ownership in Europe today.' bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…