The Ashes, Castle Sowerby, Cumbria: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Dana Challinor, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronology has demonstrated that the roof and floor of the house are coeval, both thought to utilise timber felled in or around the winter of AD 1561/2. Modifications to the roof undertaken in the nineteenth century included the resetting of purlins from the primary phase, with two of these also thought likely to date to, or around, the winter of AD 1561/2. Analysis has also shown that some timber reused in the construction of the bottom barn dates to AD 1550–86, with another timber having a terminus post quem for a felling date of AD 1534. These timbers may have been salvaged from ranges, since demolished, contemporary with the primary phase identified in the house. The timbers from the main barn are currently undated.
- Report Number:
- 61/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 68
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
