TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM ABBAS HALL, GREAT CORNARD, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
A number of the oaks used in the primary phase of the aisled hall retained complete sapwood, with two samples having bark still present on them. One was felled in the spring of AD 1289, the others in the autumn or winter AD 1289 - 90. This date accords well with stylistic evidence which had suggested a date of construction of the hall in the latter decades of the thirteenth century. A single timber from an inserted floor, thought on stylistic grounds to have been added in the sixteenth century, was felled in AD 1548 - 9. The cross-wing is thought to be sixteenth century, but is thought on architectural grounds to be later than the inserted floor, and therefore would appear to date from the latter half of that century, but was not dated dendrochronologically.
- Report Number:
- 35/2000
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
