TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM ASTLEY HOSPITAL, CHURCH ROAD, ASTLEY, MANCHESTER
Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton
Twenty-five samples from the roof and second-floor ceilings of this building were analysed by tree-ring dating. This analysis produced a single chronology consisting of nine samples, its 144 rings spanning the period AD 1507-AD 1650. Interpretation of the sapwood, and the relative positions of the heartwood/sapwood boundaries on the dated samples, would indicate that the timbers represented were all felled between late AD 1649 and early AD 1650. Given that a carved stonework plaque commemorating work in AD 1650 is found over the front porch, it is probable that this is the felling date for the majority of the other timbers also. The building thus appears to be of one phase of construction dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
- Report Number:
- 66/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 33
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
