TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL, PETERBOROUGH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE: BOARDS FROM THE PAINTED NAVE CEILING
Author(s): C Groves
Dendrochronological analysis was carried out on nine in situ oak boards from bay 1 of the painted nave ceiling at Peterborough Cathedral. The ring sequences from seven of these boards matched and dated to produce a tree-ting chronology spanning the period AD 972-1214. These were all probably felled and initially used in the mid-thirteenth century or later. The oak boards were derived from imported timbers, probably from northern Germany, and are the earliest group of deliberately imported timbers analysed in Britain. They pre-date the period of extensive export of timber through the German Hanse, in the form of oak planking, from the eastern Baltic region, during the early-fourteenth century to around AD 1650, and are thus a valuable addition to the growing body of information concerning the evolution of the timber trade.
- Report Number:
- 10/2000
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 23
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
