TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM DOVER CASTLE KEEP, DOVER CASTLE, DOVER, KENT
Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Eight samples from timbers in Henry II's Keep at Dover Castle were analysed by tree-ring dating. This analysis produced a single site chronology of 141 rings spanning the period AD 1101 -AD 1241. Interpretation of the sapwood on the samples indicates that the timbers have an estimated felling date in the range AD 1254 - 74. Thus the felling of these timbers does not relate to the original construction of the Keep but, as expected, to subsequent works which, on the basis of structural and stylistic evidence, are believed to have been undertaken in the late-thirteeth century.
- Report Number:
- 44/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
