TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM 39-41 HIGH STREET, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, GREATER LONDON
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
The properties comprising 37-41 High Street, Kingston upon Thames have had a complex history. Although no access to number 37 was available, dendrochronological analysis of numbers 39-41 was commissioned to inform other studies of these buildings. Number 41, thought to have been built as a service wing, had a crown-post roof largely of elm (Ulmus spp.) and was therefore not sampled. Despite the relatively short ring-width sequences it was possible to date elements of the painted room and carriageway of number 39. The timbers used in the painted room are most likely to have been felled in AD 1459, whilst those in the carriageway were most likely felled in the period AD 1466-88. Abrupt growth changes in some sequences suggest management of some of the timbers used in this building.
- Report Number:
- 113/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
