TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM UNTHANK HALL, STANHOPE, COUNTY DURHAM
Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Twenty-seven samples from this building at Stanhope, County Durham were analysed by tree-ring dating. This analysis produced two site chronologies. The first, consisting of twenty-three samples and having 207 rings, spans the period AD 1386 - AD 1592. Interpretation of the sapwood on the dated samples in this first chronology would indicate that the timbers used in the west range were probably all felled in AD 1553; those used in the south range were felled nearer the end of the sixteenth-century, in AD 1592. The second site chronology consists of two samples and has 113 rings spanning the period AD 1415 - AD 1527. It is not possible to be certain when the timbers represented by these samples were felled, but it is unlikely to be before AD 1542.
- Report Number:
- 4/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 40
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
