Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Marlipins House, Shoreham-by-Sea High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
This building, currently used as a museum, has a complex history, which dendrochronology has assisted in clarifying. The first floor is supported on Sampson posts and one of these was felled in the late thirteenth/early fourteenth century. The joists attached to the floor beam were felled earlier, AD 1169-97, and are probably re-used from an earlier structure. A tie beam was felled after AD 1445, but is the only timber to date from the crown-post roof structure. A lower crossbeam dates to the period AD 1567-99, and represents a period of change to the roof structure in which the queen posts (re-used timbers) were probably inserted. These phases are represented by few timbers, and the interpretation therefore needs to be treated with caution.
- Report Number:
- 110/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 13
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
