St Swithun’s Church, Woodborough, Nottinghamshire :Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Bellframe and Belfry Floor
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Dendrochronological analysis undertaken on samples taken from the belfry floor and bellframe at this church has resulted in the construction and dating of two site sequences. The first, WDBASQ01, contains two samples, both from the bellframe, and spans the period AD 1530–1619. The second, WDBASQ02, contains ten samples, two from the belfry floor and eight from the bellframe, and spans the period AD 1529–1650. Interpretation of the heartwood/sapwood boundary ring date of the dated samples suggests they were all felled sometime within the range AD 1651–64. Tree-ring analysis has shown the belfry floor and bellframe are likely to be contemporary, with both structures dating to the mid-seventeenth century.
- Report Number:
- 34/2008
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 40
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
