TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM NEWBURY FARMHOUSE, DULLY STREET, TONGE, KENT

Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton

Twelve samples were obtained from the timbers of Newbury Farmhouse, Tonge, though only eleven of these were actually suitable for tree-ring analysis. From the eleven measured samples two site chronologies were produced. The first site chronology, consisting of four samples, has 235 rings spanning the period AD 938 - AD 1172. Interpretation of the heartwood/sapwood boundary in this group suggests a felling date for the timbers of the medieval phase in the range AD 1187 - AD 1207. A further sample was dated individually as having a similar date span and is consistent with a late twelfth or early thirteenth-century felling date. The second site chronology consists of two samples and has 95 rings spanning the period AD 1422 - AD 1516. Interpretation of the sapwood suggests a felling date for these inserted timbers of between AD 1517 - 20.

Report Number:
59/2000
Series:
AML Reports (New Series)
Pages:
29
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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