Cappleside Barn (Brocklands Barn), Hollow Gill Brow, Rathmell, North Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak and Pine Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 19 of the 21 oak samples obtained from timbers to the roof trusses and stalls in the shippon, the remaining two oak samples having too few rings for reliable dating. Samples were also obtained from four pine timbers to the shippon ceiling. This analysis produced one oak site chronology, CPSBSQ01, accounting for 14 samples, all of them from the roof, and a second site chronology, CPSBSQ02, comprising the four pine samples. Only the oak site chronology could be dated, its 141 rings spanning AD 1571–1711. Interpretation of the sapwood on these samples suggests that the dated oak timbers were all cut as part of a single programme of felling c AD 1712–16. Although undated, the four sampled pine timbers of the shippon ceiling appear coeval. The remaining five measured oak samples, including all three measured samples from the stalls in the shippon, remain ungrouped and undated.
- Report Number:
- 10/2018
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 42
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
