Deal Castle, Victoria Street, Deal, Kent: Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers, Michael Dee, Sanne Palstra, Peter Marshall
Independent validation of tentative tree-ring dating for a previously undated site chronology, DELCSQ02, from Deal Castle, Kent, has been obtained by radiocarbon wiggle-matching and it can now be considered as a radiocarbon-supported dendrochronological date that spans AD 1401–1518DR, with its timbers having an estimated felling date in the range AD 1530DR–1555DR. This important result now demonstrates that the main ceiling beams of the Central Tower forming the ground-floor ceiling are all original, while its consoles date to the early seventeenth century.
- Report Number:
- 40/2022
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Radiocarbon Dating Standing Building Wiggle-Match
