{"id":1678,"date":"2021-10-18T20:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2021-10-18T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:13:40","slug":"old-wick-back-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/old-wick-back-in-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Wick &#8211; Back in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In September 2021, Dr Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah from Dendrochronicle along with a team from Historic Envirnoment Scotland led by Rachel Pickering removed an original timber from the Great Tower at Old Wick in Caithness to help date the castle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following on from the successful removal of the piece of wood Dr Coralie Mills and her colleague Hamish Darrah have taken the wood back to their lab for further analysis. In three short videos they explain what they have been doing and what they have found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bDEO0H\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first video Coralie explains how the sample was prepared for testing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COWupdate 1\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q6VdjsSVa3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In their second video Hamish explains how they managed to work out which type of wood they had removed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Part 2 IMG 1419\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVO3phpCtfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Coralie explains what the implications are of Hamish&#8217;s findings and what they plan to do next:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COWupdate 3\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpXpVeTYTyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bDEO0H\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With thanks to both Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah for filming the videos and Rachel Pickering from HES for editing them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2021, Dr Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah from Dendrochronicle along with a team from Historic Envirnoment Scotland led by Rachel Pickering removed an original timber from the Great Tower at Old Wick in Caithness to help date the castle. Following on from the successful removal of the piece of wood Dr Coralie Mills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/old-wick-back-in-the-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Wick &#8211; Back in the Lab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}