Southall Manor House, The Green, Southall, Ealing, London: Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers, Silvia Bollhalder, Michael Dee, Sanne Palstra, Lukas Wacker, Peter Marshall
Radiocarbon wiggle-matching of three undated ring-width site chronologies, STHASQ01, STHASQ02, and STHASQ03, from Southall Manor House, London, suggests their final rings formed in cal AD 1606–1633 (95% probability), probably in cal AD 1614–1628 (68% probability); cal AD 1602–1620 (95% probability), probably in cal AD 1604–1613 (68% probability), and cal AD 1546–1568 (11% probability) or cal AD 1608–1642 (84% probability), probably in cal AD 1615–1638 (68% probability). Even though precise calendar dating has not been achieved for the construction dates of the various elements of Southall Manor House we now know that it contains a significant amount of timber felled in the first half of the seventeenth century. This is at odds with the expected late-sixteenth-century-date and the carved AD 1587 inside the pediment of one of the windows of the west front of the main house.
- Report Number:
- 39/2022
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 20
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Radiocarbon Dating Standing Building Wiggle-Match
