THE TREE-RING DATING OF 8 MARKET PLACE, SHEPTON MALLET, SOMERSET
Author(s): Daniel Miles
Seven timbers were sampled for tree-ring dating from the main range and three from the north wing at 8 Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Of these, nine dated and produced a 160-ring master chronology, SHPTNMLT, spanning the years AD 1518-1677. Precise felling dates of summer/autumn AD 1674, winter AD 1674/5, and spring AD 1675 were obtained for the main range, and a single felling date of spring AD 1678 for the north wing, suggests that the two ranges are virtually coeval, with the north range possibly being constructed a few years later than the main range. The resulting chronology is a useful addition to the small corpus of seventeenth-century tree-ring chronologies.
- Report Number:
- 4/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 16
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
