Newcomen Terrace (The Redcar Beacon), Redcar, North Yorkshire, Tree-ring Assessment and Analysis of Wreck Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological assessment was undertaken on the remains of two vessels (wreck 1: NRHE 1621940; wreck 2: NRHE 1621932) located on the foreshore at Redcar, North Yorkshire. No samples were recovered from wreck 2 but eight samples were recovered from the oak framing timbers of wreck 1. Analysis of these samples produced a single site chronology comprising four samples, this having an overall length of 99 rings. These rings were dated as spanning the years AD 1722– 1820. All four framing timbers are broadly coeval and likely to have originated from trees of British origin. Interpretation of the heartwood/sapwood boundary on the dated samples indicates that at least three of them were felled some time towards the middle of the nineteenth century, the fourth sample being clearly broadly coeval. However, bearing in mind the complexities of construction and subsequent repairs to vessels, it is also possible that they were felled at different times at some point during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century.
- Report Number:
- 262/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 35
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Wreck
