THE TREE-RING DATING OF HERGEST COURT KINGTON, HEREFORDSHIRE
Author(s): Daniel Miles
Thirty-seven tree-ring samples were taken from thirty timbers from various phases at Hergest Court, Kington, Herefordshire (SO 281 554). Four replicated site chronologies were produced, spanning the years AD 1078-1266, AD 1167-1306, AD 1438-1598, and AD 1451-1665. Tree-ring dating has identified re-used timbers dating from AD 1267 most likely from the primary roof structure of Building G, an uncercroft of AD 1307, a felling date range of AD 1485-1515 for a pentice extension to the undercroft, an AD 1666 block above the undercroft extension with a staircase extension of the same date. A timber-framed core between the two main ranges was found to date from AD 1619-22. A two-storey detached solar block survives to the west, dating stylistically to c AD 1300 although the roof is not original and contained a single dated timber of AD 1452.
- Report Number:
- 13/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 39
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
