TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM THE OUTBUILDINGS AT PRIOR'S HALL, WIDDINGTON, ESSEX
Author(s): Ian Tyers
A tree-ring dating programme was commissioned on an outbuilding at Prior's Hall, Widdington, by English Heritage in the early spring of AD 2001. The building has a complex sequence of modifications which it was hoped that tree-ring dating would help elucidate. The results indicate the original five-bay structure and its three-bay western floor use trees felled in AD 1490/91. The dated timbers appear to be primary to the structure in both areas. Subsequent modifications using trees felled in AD 1563/4 for an eastern extension and in the AD 1580s for a western extension were identified. An area of inserted floor in the eastern part of the original structure and the eastern extension contained no material suitable for tree-ring analysis.
- Report Number:
- 46/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 18
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
