THE TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM THE CHURCH OF ST PETER, BARTON ON HUMBER, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE
Author(s): Ian Tyers
The church of St Peter, Barton on Humber, is renowned for the surviving Saxon masonry tower and baptistry at the west end of a later nave and chancel. The church fabric and archaeology have been the subject of an extensive study directed by Warwick Rodwell which is now approaching publication. A tree-ring sampling programme of structural timbers throughout the building and a number of non-structural objects, including two chests in the adjacent church of St Mary that were originally from St Peter, was commissioned to help inform the publication. The tree-ring analysis indicates that the proposed development sequence of the church is compatible with the dates of the timbers, at least for those phases with suitable surviving timbers. Unfortunately many phases of the church, and in particular the earliest material associated with the tower and baptistry, contain timbers unsuitable for dendrochronological dating because to few rings are present in the surviving timbers.
- Report Number:
- 51/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
