TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM SUTTON COMMON, ASKERN, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Author(s): Nigel Nayling
Samples of waterlogged wood recovered during the selected excavation of this late prehistoric enclosure were examined to identify the tree species represented and the growth patterns of the parent trees. The majority of the samples were derived from immature oaks and had insufficient rings to merit measurement for tree-ring dating. Nine samples were measured, and the sequences from tree posts employed in a palisade found to cross-match providing a 70-year site mean. Neither this mean nor any of the individual tree sequences produced in this study were found to match against external, previously dated chronologies. The growth structure of the assemblage studied suggests that should further excavation be carried out on the site, then further timbers suitable for dendrochronological analysis are likely to be encountered.
- Report Number:
- 24/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Plant Remains Wood
