The Old Standard (Nos 1 and 2), Little Keigwin (No 5), and Keigwin (no 7), Keigwin Place, Mousehole, Cornwall: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Analysis by dendrochronology of 49 out of 60 samples obtained from the three properties of this building complex (11 samples having been rejected) has produced three site chronologies comprising 32, 3, and 2 samples each, these site chronologies having 240 rings, 91 rings, and 75 rings respectively. Only the first of these site chronologies, which contains samples from all three properties, can be dated, its rings spanning the years AD 1374 –1613. Whilst it is theoretically possible that some parts of the ‘Keigwins’, perhaps the hall, predate the AD 1595 Spanish raid on Mousehole, the absence of any evidence for damage to or reuse of earlier timbers, plus the presence of other timbers felled in the early-seventeenth century, including two certainly felled in AD 1612 and AD 1613, suggests that much of the material post-dates the raid.
- Report Number:
- 10/2008
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 58
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
