TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM 3 VICARS' CLOSE, LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE
Author(s): Alison Arnold, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Twelve samples were taken from timbers of the first floor and attic of this building. Six of these were not analysed because of their short ring-width sequences. The analysis carried out on the remaining six samples resulted in the construction of a single undated site chronology and the individual dating of two samples. Site chronology LVCDSQ01, has 58 rings and is constructed from two samples, LVC-D01 and LVC-D02. It could not be matched and so the timbers from which these samples were taken remain undated. Attempts to date the remaining four samples individually resulted in sample LVC-D09 being found to span the period AD 1350-AD 1431, and sample LVC-D12, the period AD 1383-AD 1438. Both samples have the heartwood/sapwood boundary ring, which can be used to calculate a felling date within the range AD 1448-73, for the timbers these samples are taken from. The other two samples, LVC-D08 and LVC-D11 could not be dated. The analysis has resulted in two samples being successfully dated. The two timbers dated to AD 1448-73 are from a main post and a stud at first-floor level.
- Report Number:
- 15/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
