THE TREE-RING DATING OF THE NEW INN, 26-28 CORNMARKET, OXFORD
Author(s): D Haddon-Reece, Daniel Miles
A massive restoration project during 1986-7 on the medieval Zacharias's Building, Cornmarket, Oxford, (SP 5128 0634) produced twenty-five timber off-cuts for dendrochronological analysis. Initial analysis undertaken in 1987 tentatively dated eighteen of the samples, three producing felling dates from the winter of AD 1381/2 and another to the winter of AD 1386/7. These were summarised in Haddon-Reece et al 1988 and in Munby et al 1992. Further analysis in 1996 confirmed ten of these dates which included two felling dates from the winter of AD 1381/2, a third from the winter of AD 1382/3, but did not confirm acceptably the AD 1386/7 felling date previously reported. Six samples were combined to form a new master chronology ZACHS96 spanning the years AD 1164-1381, with slightly higher t-values.
- Report Number:
- 20/1996
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology
