TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM TOWN WALL STREET, DOVER
Author(s): Nigel Nayling
Nine samples from timber structures encountered during waterfront excavations were examined. All were oak (Quercus spp.) and had sufficient rings for tree-ring dating. The tree-ring width series from four samples cross-matched and were dated against numerous sequences from sites in Roman London covering the period 263 BC-AD 15. It would appear that the timbers were converted from very mature trees which would have been over three centuries old at the time of Roman occupation. As no sapwood survived on any of the dated samples, the dating results are limited to indicating a terminus post quem of AD 28 for one of the two waterfront structures encountered. Timbers from the stratigraphically later, and presumably medieval, structure were not dated.
- Report Number:
- 63/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology
