Communities in parts of rural Romania retain a more collaborative, integrated and traditional approach to living on the land than survives in western Europe, though now under immense pressures of change. Peter Quelch, native woodlands expert and Dendrochronicle colleague, has …
Cree Valley Woodland Heritage Seminar
It was a great pleasure to be part of the Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust’s seminar on Woodland Heritage held in and around Newton Stewart, Galloway, on 7th & 8th June 2012, an event supported by the Community Woodlands Association …
Woodland workshop – Cairngorms Community Heritage
One of the site visits on our woodland heritage workshop on 31st May 2012 for Cairngorms Community Heritage programme (led by RCAHMS, supported by Cairngorms National Park, workshop tutors Peter Quelch & Coralie Mills) was to an overgrown old oak …
Dendrochronology workshops announced
Two new Dendrochronicle one-day workshops have been announced, full details on the Events page, and bookings are now open. One is on tree-ring dating in archaeology (12th July) and one on tree-rings & tree-forms in wooded landscape studies (13th July), …
Historic Woodland Survey FCS dayschool
On 20th April 2012, Peter Quelch & Coralie Mills led a dayschool arranged by Matt Ritchie (FCS archaeologist) to introduce our approach to Historic Woodland Survey. The day was attended by several FCS staff and representatives of other institutions including …
Trossachs Woodland Heritage
The Trossachs are so rich in historic woodlands and cultural landscapes, a theme we explored in a Dendrochronicle training workshop and guided walk this weekend (tutors Peter Quelch & Coralie Mills). Our hosts, the Trossachs Landscape Heritage Network and the …
Trossachs Woodland Heritage Events announced
Events for 2012 are being firmed up, amongst the first being in the Trossachs with an Introductory Woodland Heritage Workshop on 3rd March and a guided walk to Glen Gyle’s wood pastures and archaeology, near Loch Katrine, on the 4th …
Christmas greetings
We have a long tradition in Britain of bringing in native tree greenery at Christmas, most surely connected to ancient mid-winter celebrations. The photo shows the fresh wreath I made at a workshop this week, and uses native yew, ivy …