TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM CLUMPCLIFF FARM, METHLEY LANE, ROTHWELL, NEAR OULTON, WEST YORKSHIRE
Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Thirty-two samples from the three buildings at Clumpcliff farm were analysed by tree-ring dating. This analysis produced three site chronologies. The first, consisting of twenty-one samples and having 162 rings, spans the period AD 1452 - Ad 1613. The second site chronology consists of four samples and has 71 rings. These rings span the period AD 1619 - 89. The third site chronology consists of two samples with 86 rings, but this fails to date. Interpretation of the sapwood on all the dated material indicates felling dates for timbers used in each of the buildings sampled as follows: The aisled barn is constructed of timbers all felled in AD 1588. The roof of the farmhouse is constructed of timber felled between AD 1611 and AD 1613. It is highly likely that the timber used for all the ceiling beams of the farmhouse, both moulded and unmoulded, was also felled at this time; one sample from an unmoulded timber, with complete sapwood, has a last measured ring date of AD 1613. Four of the eight samples from the smaller semi-detached barn are from timbers that were felled in AD 1688 and AD 1689.
- Report Number:
- 13/2000
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 38
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
