Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Roof of the Accounts Office, Dean’s Cloister, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
A total of 26 core samples was obtained from the roof and first-floor frame timbers of the Accounts Office on the roof of the Dean’s Cloister at Windsor Castle. Of this total, 15 were measured and analysed, the analysis of these producing three site chronologies. The first site chronology comprises four samples with a combined overall length of 85 rings. Unfortunately this site chronology cannot be dated, though it is likely that the timbers represented were all felled at the same time. The second site chronology comprises two samples having a combined overall length of 57 rings. This site chronology cannot be dated though again it is likely that the two timbers represented were felled at the same time as each other. The third site chronology comprises three samples having an overall length of 65 rings. This site chronology can be dated as spanning the years AD 1437 - AD 1501. Interpretation of the sapwood would suggest the timbers represented, from both the roof and the first floor, have a felling date in the range AD 1511 - 36.
- Report Number:
- 2/2005
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 18
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
