TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, GREAT CLACTON, ESSEX
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
The late-medieval nave roof covers a wide span and has larger rafters than is usual for a roof of this type. The rafters, collars, ashlars, inner and outer wallplates, and wallplate ties were all closely inspected but most were rejected for dendrochronological analysis as it was apparent that they contained few rings. Some limited sampling on the most promising samples found that these also contained too few rings for dating. Two pairs of series were combined but the resulting series did not date. The remnants of an older belfry are supported on tie beams at the west end of the nave. Some of the timbers of this belfry were accessible and were sampled. These yielded longer tree-ring series, two of which matched each other, but none of the series gave consistent cross matching against any of the available reference material, and this too remains undated.
- Report Number:
- 67/2000
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
