#dendrochronology

#dendrochronology

The Sycamore Gap tree stood at a beauty spot on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland that was the site of countless marriage proposals, birthday celebrations and scatterings of ashes. Its illegal felling prompted sadness and anger that rippled around the world. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, the men who cut the tree down on a stormy September night in 2023, were each jailed for four years and three months.

The remains of a wooden bridge built over 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Aegerten, Switzerland. More than 300 oak piles from the bridge spans over the Zihl river were unearthed, preserved in the waterlogged soil of the silted-over riverbed. Archaeologists had found remains of Roman military structures on both banks of the Zihl 40 years ago, so when construction was planned in the same area, a team from the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern excavated the site.