Oughtibridge Hall, Oughtibridge Lane, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis, Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology, and Radiocarbon Wiggle-matching of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers, A Bayliss, Silvia Bollhalder, Lukas Wacker, Neil J Loader, Danny McCarroll, Darren Davies, Daniel Miles, Giles Young
Tree-ring analysis was undertaken on cores from 41 of the 51 timbers sampled, these timbers being associated with the hall range, east and west cross-wings, and an outbuilding at Oughtibridge Hall. This analysis produced four site chronologies accounting for 28 samples: two of these were dated by ring-width dendrochronology, a third by radiocarbon-supported oxygen isotope dendrochronology, and the fourth remains undated. A total of 13 measured samples remain both ungrouped and undated. No samples could be dated from timbers associated with the primary construction of the open hall and east cross-wing. Interpretation of the sapwood and the heartwood/sapwood boundary on the 26 dated samples show that a group of eight timbers from the primary construction phase of the west cross-wing were felled in the late-sixteenth century, that the re-roofing of the hall and east cross-wing is likely to have taken place shortly after AD 1707 (although there may have been further modifications in the roof of the east cross-wing a few years later, and the roof over the hall includes at least one reused timber), and that the outbuilding in the driveway contains timbers felled in the early seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries.
- Report Number:
- 226/2020
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 70
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Radiocarbon Dating Standing Building Wiggle-Match Oxygen Isotope
