Broad Bottom Old Hall, Broad Bottom Lane, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers

Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers

Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on core samples obtained from 21 oak timbers at Broad Bottom Old Hall, producing two site chronologies. The first site chronology, BBOHSQ01, accounts for 17 samples from both the hall and the east-range roof and is 168 rings long overall, these rings spanning the years AD 1361–1528. Interpretation of the sapwood on these samples suggests that the dated timbers to the hall were felled in, or about, AD 1464. The east-range roof also contains some timbers felled in, or about, AD 1464, and at least one timber that is potentially slightly earlier, but it also contains some timbers felled in, or about, AD 1528. The second site chronology is 70 rings long, BBOHSQ02, and comprises two samples from one of the trusses in the east-range roof, but this site chronology could not be dated. Two further samples remain ungrouped and undated

Report Number:
53/2018
Series:
Research Report
Pages:
43
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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