TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM ESSEX LODGE, PLAISTOW, LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
This building has at its core two trusses and various other timbers from a medieval hall, thought on typological grounds to date from the late-fifteenth or early sixteenth-centuries. Tree-ring studies have shown that the timbers used in this phase came from very young trees with few rings. The series from two trees were combined to form a 79-year long sequence which failed to date. A beam from the cellar, which represents a later phase of construction, gave a ring-width series dated to the period AD 1461 - 1580, but with no sapwood evident, this only gives a date of use sometime after AD 1589.
- Report Number:
- 44/1998
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 11
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
