THE TREE-RING DATING OF COURT FARM BARN, CHURCH LANE, WINTERBOURNE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Author(s): Daniel Miles
Four cruck blades with incomplete sapwood were initally sampled from the barn at Court Farm, Church Lane, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire (ST 641 808) in 1991 by Roland Harris. These were analysed by Jennifer Hillam of the Sheffield Dendrochronology Laboratory who produced a felling date range of AD 1326-68. To supplement and enhance this date range, these four cruck blades were re-sampled in March 2000 together with six additional primary-phase timbers, all ten retaining virtually complete sapwood. Although some degradation of the outer surface of some of the samples has produced a very narrow date range of one or two years, all were consistent with the latest precise felling date of spring AD 1342.
- Report Number:
- 34/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 17
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
