Mitchell’s Brewery, Brewery Lane, Lancaster: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers

Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard

Analysis of 38 conifer samples from the malthouse and ‘tower’ areas of the Mitchell’s Brewery complex has resulted in the production of five different site sequences, comprising 22 of the 33 samples which were measured. Three of these five site sequences, LNCASQ01, LNCASQ02, and LNCASQ03, accounting for eight, five, and two samples, and being 128, 183, and 133 rings long, can be dated as spanning AD 1627–1754, AD 1551–1733, and AD 1605–1737, respectively. Interpretation of the sapwood on these dated samples indicates that they were probably all felled and, allowing for transportation, initially used in the mid-AD 1750s. There is no evidence for reuse and hence, assuming that these timbers are integral to the malthouse, it appears likely that it was constructed at this time. Two further site sequences remain undated, and a further 11 measured samples remain ungrouped and undated.

Report Number:
29/2010
Series:
Research Department Reports
Pages:
55
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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