Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Number 8 Canon's Cloisters, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
A total of 10 samples was obtained from a series of oak joists and floorboards from an upstairs room in number 8 Canon's Cloisters. The analysis of these samples produced two site chronologies. The first site chronology comprises two samples with a combined overall length of 119 rings. This site chronology can be dated as spanning the years AD 1165-1283. neither of the samples in this site chronology retains the heartwood/sapwood boundary, and it is thus not possible to accurately calculate the felling date of the timbers represented, except to say that it is unlikely to be before AD 1298 and therefore may represent fourteenth-century material. The second site chronology comprises four samples having a combined overall length of 86 rings. This site chronology cannot be dated though again it is likely that the two timbers represented were felled at the same time. None of the four remaining ungrouped samples can be dated individually.
- Report Number:
- 49/2005
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
