Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Gazebo, Shifnal Manor, Shifnal, near Telford, Shropshire
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
Core samples were obtained from the ten oak timbers available at the Gazebo,Shifnal Manor. The analysis of this material produced a single site chronology, SHFBSQ01, comprising six samples, and having a combined overall length of 174 rings. This site chronology was dated as spanning the years AD 1455 to AD 1628. Interpretation of the sapwood would indicate that all the dated timbers, representing both floor joists and window lintels, were cut in a single phase of felling in AD 1628. Such a date would indicate that the Gazebo is not part of Gilbert, the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury's late-sixteenth century improvements, but was undertaken when Anne Dacre, the Dowager Countess of Arundel was living at Shifnal.
- Report Number:
- 60/2005
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 32
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
