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

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