TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM THE BARN AT OLD FARM, NORTH LITTLETON, WORCESTERSHIRE
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
The main body of the barn contains two types of truss which, on stylistic evidence, come from two distinct periods, the medieval and the late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century. There are also an extension at the southern end, also thought to be of late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century date, and a porch of unknown date. Closer inspection of the timbers for dendrochronological study revealed that the replacement trusses in the main part of the barn and timbers in the porch and southern extension were all of elm, and these, with one exception, were not sampled. The oak timbers from the supposed medieval trusses were most likely from non-woodland, exhibiting ring-width sequences with abrupt growth changes, and their growth patterns did not date. The pairs of posts to two fo the trusses each appear to have ben made from a single tree.
- Report Number:
- 4/1998
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
