Tree-Ring Analysis Of Timbers from the Manor House, West Street, Alford, Lincolnshire
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
A total of forty-seven cores samples was obtained from a wide range of locations within the Manor House, Alford, Lincolnshire. The analysis of these samples produced a single site chronology consisting of forty-four samples, being 169 rings long. This site chronology was dated as spanning the years AD 1500 to AD 1668. Interpretation of the sapwood on the samples indicates that all the timbers in the roofs of the three ranges, plus almost all the timbers of the first and attic floor-frames of the three ranges were felled in AD 1611. A single spine beam of the attic floor-frame is made from timber felled in AD 1664, while a bressummer beam in the outshut cellar is made of a timber cut in AD 1672-4. There is no evidence for any earlier timber, particularly any timber dating to the sixteenth century.
- Report Number:
- 55/2003
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 25
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
