Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from White Hart Yard, 10-16 Cloth Market, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
Samples were taken from timbers in both the front (roof, ground-floor and first-floor ceiling beams) and rear ranges of this building. Analysis undertaken on 31 samples resulted in 27 of these grouping to form site sequence NWCDSQ01. This site sequence contains samples from all areas sampled, and spans the period AD 1391-1529. Prior to tree-ring analysis being carried out, this building was thought to date to the first half of the sixteenth century. It was uncertain, however, whether the ranges were contemporary or of slightly different dates. Dendrochronological dating has shown that the timbers from the rear-range roof were felled in AD 1527, with those from the ground and first-floor ceiling beams and the roof of the front range being felled two years later in AD 1529.
- Report Number:
- 36/2005
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 34
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
