My little window into the history of a wood pasture in southern Scotland.

Working on ageing tree cores from Dairy Wood near Moffat for @bordersforesttrust to help unravel the history of the wood and inform its future conservation management.

This is part of an ash core under the microscope, revealing its lovely clear ring-porous tree-ring structure.

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