TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM MILL HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET, ALPHETON, SUFFOLK
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
This large house of three elements, a hall and two cross wings, is thought on stylistic grounds to date from the late-fifteenth century. It was found to contain oak, ash, and elm timbers in its framing. The oaks from the primary structure were found to be very fast-grown, and could not be dated. A single component of a floor inserted in the hall was found to have used a timber felled in spring or summer of AD 1617, slightly later than had been previously proposed. Although this phase is only represented by a single timber, this major component has to be primary to that phase and is unlikely to have been re-used from elsewhere.
- Report Number:
- 2/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
