TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM GUNNS MILLS, SPOUT LANE, ABENHALL, NEAR MITCHELDEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Fifteen samples from the timber portion of this blast furnace were analysed by tree-ring dating. This analysis produced a single site chronology of nine samples, the 244 rings it contains spanning the period AD 1438 - AD 1681. Interpretation of the sapwood, and the relative positions of the heartwood/sapwood boundaries on the dated samples, suggests that the timbers represented, all from the northern half of the timber building, were felled in late AD 1681 or early AD 1682. This felling took place as part of a reconstruction programme, known to have taken place in AD 1682 - 3 and does not date to the c AD 1740 conversion of the building to a paper mill.
- Report Number:
- 25/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 21
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
