The Malt House, Blacker Hall Farmhouse, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Core samples were taken from timbers in the roof, floor-frame of the first-floor, and lintels at ground-floor and first-floor levels of this building. Additionally, cross-sectional slices were taken from a number of ex situ beams. Tree-ring analysis undertaken on all of these samples resulted in the construction of five site sequences, only one of which has been dated. Timber utilised in the construction of the roof has been dated as felled in, or around, AD 1687, with the floor frame likely to be coeval, containing timber felled in AD 1687–1701. A window lintel is also dated to AD 1687 with a door lintel having a terminus post quem for a felling date of AD 1658, and thought likely to also have been felled in, or around, AD 1687. Two ex situ beams of unknown origin are dated as felled in AD 1675–1700 and, therefore, are again likely to belong to the same building phase as the rest of the dated material.
- Report Number:
- 206/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
