Rose Cottage, Tyler’s Green, Penn, Buckinghamshire: Archaeomagnetic Dating Report 2004
Author(s): Paul Linford
During excavations in advance of redevelopment at Rose Cottage, Tyler's Green near Penn in Buckinghamshire, a series of medieval and post-medieval tile kilns were discovered. Finds at the site included a number of decorated medieval floor tiles of a type characteristic of the Penn area in the late medieval period. Archaeomagnetic analysis of two kilns from the site suggests that both were last used in a later period, one in the fifteenth century and the other in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. However, there was evidence that magnetic distortion might have affected the earlier date, whilst individual magnetisation direction measurements for the later date were surprisingly inconsistent for such a well fired feature.
- Report Number:
- 24/2004
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 26
- Keywords:
- Archaeomagnetism
