TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM POUND FARM, KINGTON, HEREFORDSHIRE
Author(s): Nigel Nayling
This report describes the results of dendrochronological analysis of samples taken from the surviving trusses of Pound Farm, near Kington, Herefordshire (NGR SO28925418), originally a four-bay hall house with five cruck trusses. The house is a Grade II* listed building currently in poor condition but about to undergo extensive repairs. Seven samples taken from in situ cruck blades, collars, and a strut, and from one of the blades of a collapsed truss, were cross-matched, and a 125-year site mean calculated which dated against numerous reference chronologies to AD 1316-1441. No samples with bark edge were recovered, but the presence of heartwood/sapwood boundaries on six of the dated samples indicates a felling date range for the parent timbers of AD 1451-61, implying a mid-fifteenth century date for the building's construction.
- Report Number:
- 28/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 12
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
