Church of St Julitta, Lanteglos, Cornwall: Tree-Ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis has resulted in the dating of 28 timbers from the roofs of the nave, south aisle, and north transept. Timbers from the south aisle roof have been dated as felled in the period AD 1469–91, whilst those from the nave roof may be coeval but appear more likely to be very slightly later having a felling date range of AD 1483–1508. Two slightly different felling periods have been identified for the timbers in the north transept roof of AD 1464–89 and AD 1485–1510. These two felling date ranges overlap indicating the possibility that the timbers represented are coeval but they appear more likely to represent two different episodes of felling. Thus, this roof can be seen to utilise timber coeval with both the south aisle and the nave roofs perhaps suggesting that the bulk of the timber in this roof was felled at the same time, or within a few years, of the nave but that this roof also incorporates slightly earlier timbers, perhaps surplus from construction of the south aisle roof.
- Report Number:
- 169/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 44
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
