West Barn, Common Lane, Parbold, near Preston, Lancashire: Tree-ring Analysis of Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Dendrochronological analysis of an extensive range of timbers in this barn has produced a single dated site chronology comprising 21 of the 23 samples measured. This site chronology has an overall length of 129 rings, these rings dated as spanning the years AD 1431–1559. Interpretation of the sapwood present on the samples indicates that all the timbers represented, from the main body of the barn, the north aisle, and the eastern floor frame, were cut as part of a single phase of felling in the late AD1550s. Two measured samples remain ungrouped and undated.
- Report Number:
- 111/2011
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 37
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
