Former Hills Furnishing Stores Ltd, 104 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of ex situ Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Analysis by dendrochronology of samples from 30 different ex situ oak timbers resulted in the production of a single site chronology accounting for samples from 25 timbers. This site chronology is 304 rings long spanning the years AD 1329–1632. A second site chronology accounting for two further samples was also created. This second site chronology is 123 rings long, but could not be dated. A further single sample was dated individually, spanning AD 1390–1466. Interpretation of the sapwood on all the dated samples shows that at least two timbers were felled in AD 1632, with others probably also being felled in the early AD 1630s. One timber (showing evidence for reuse) has an estimated felling date in the range AD 1462–78 and it is possible that one other timber was also felled earlier than the majority of the dated timbers. Two samples remain both ungrouped and undated.
- Report Number:
- 196/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 43
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building