Farm Outbuilding Comprising Former Barn, Cowhouse, and Stables to the South-West of Barlow Woodseats Hall, Johnnygate Lane,Barlow, Derbyshire: Tree-ring Dating of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge, Robert Howard
In total, 39 timbers have been sampled, 13 from each of the three sections of the outbuilding: a cowshed, stables, and a cruck-framed former threshing barn, the latter of which had been the subject of a previous dendrochronological programme in the 1990s. Samples from 18 timbers were successfully dated. The majority of the dated timbers in the cruck barn, comprising cruck blades, purlins, a collar, and a wall plate, were felled in, or around, AD 1535. However, the southernmost pair of cruck blades were felled in AD 1625. The cowshed and stables were found to have been most likely constructed at the same time as each other, in the period AD 1677–1704.
- Report Number:
- 261/2020
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 36
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
