Town House (Ashwell Museum), Swan Street, Ashwell, Hertfordshire: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge, Cathy Tyers
Five of the fourteen samples taken from this building had too few rings for further analysis. The ring-width series from five of the nine remaining timbers were crossmatched and combined to form a 104-year site chronology that was subsequently dated to the period AD 1348–1451. Four of the five dated timbers had heartwood/sapwood boundary dates very close to each other, the remaining dated timber having a heartwood/sapwood boundary date of some twenty years later. It is possible that two separate felling episodes are represented, but if all timbers represent a single felling episode, as is thought likely, then construction probably occurred sometime in the period between the late AD 1450s to the early AD 1470s.
- Report Number:
- 186/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 19
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
