Greenham Barton, Stawley, Somerset: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge, Cathy Tyers
The building contains remnant medieval aisled trusses, one of which yielded samples producing a 75-year long sequence that dated to the period AD 1205–79. A single timber from this phase had complete sapwood, and was from a tree felled in the winter of AD 1279/80. The other timber had no sapwood but is broadly coeval. The extant replacement hall roof and the roofs over the service range, the kitchen range, and the south roof over the solar appear to be broadly contemporaneous. All contain timber felled in the mid- to later-eighteenth century, and appear to represent a substantial re-ordering at this time.
- Report Number:
- 190/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 34
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
