TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM PENRHOS COURT, NEAR KINGTON, HEREFORDSHIRE
Author(s): Ian Tyers
Tree-ring analysis was undertaken on 16 samples from the cruck hall and cross-wing at Penrhos Court, Herefordshire. Seven timbers were dated and these indicated four separate felling phases: two timbers from the cruck hall were felled in the mid-AD 1430s; one from the cross-wing was felled in the mid/late-fifteenth century; two timbers from a floor in the north bay of the cross-wing were felled in the mid-sixteenth century; whilst two timbers from an inserted floor in the hall were felled in the late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century. In view of the complexity of these results a detailed structural survey and a documentary research would perhaps help elucidate the historic development of Penrhos Court. The small number of dated timbers from each identified construction phase suggests that the results of the tree-ring analysis should be treated with some caution until then.
- Report Number:
- 31/1998
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 19
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
