The Chantry, Chantry Place, Morpeth, Northumberland: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard
Analysis of material from the present roof structure of the western end of the nave of the Chantry, Morpeth, has resulted in the production of a single site chronology comprising all 12 samples obtained. This site chronology has an overall length of 316 rings, which are dated as spanning the years AD 1336–1651. Interpretation of the sapwood indicates that all the timbers were probably cut as part of a single programme of felling, dated to the mid-AD 1650s. As suspected following a more recent survey of the building, the present roof is, therefore, not the original, but a later seventeenth-century replacement.
- Report Number:
- 68/2009
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 36
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
