Oak House, Oak Road, West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Analysis of 53 measured samples from a wide range of locations at the Oak House, West Bromwich has resulted in the production of five site chronologies. Three of these site chronologies, accounting for 39 samples, can be dated, whilst two further site chronologies, accounting for a total of four samples, remain undated. Ten measured samples remain ungrouped and undated. Interpretation of the sapwood and the heartwood/sapwood boundaries on these dated samples indicates that the Oak House is constructed of timbers which were cut as part of series of indistinguishable felling phases in the late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries. There appears to be no appreciable difference in the felling dates of the timbers from the hall range, from either wing, or from the ground floor, strongly suggesting that the Oak House is substantially of a single phase of construction, dating to the late-sixteenth/early-seventeenth century. A small group of timbers date to the mid- to third-quarter of the seventeenth century, and probably relate to alterations and modifications made at that time.
- Report Number:
- 34/2009
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 57
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
