The Old Mint House, High Street, Pevensey, East Sussex: Tree-ring Dating of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
Four main areas of this building were sampled, along with a few other individual timbers, making a total of 43 timbers in all. The hall and kitchen were found to be more or less coeval, but low levels of similarity between the ring-width series from the timbers from each area could suggest a short period between the construction of the two elements. Leaving out one timber that dated well individually against site chronologies from further afield and which was slightly earlier than the rest of the timbers, the likely felling date for the hall and kitchen timbers is in the mid-AD 1520s or early AD 1530s. The cross-wing and connecting range also appear to be coeval with each other, both using timber felled in the late AD 1560s or early 1570s.
- Report Number:
- 53/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 47
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
