TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM WINGFIELD COLLEGE, WINGFIELD, SUFFOLK
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
Wingfield College was founded in AD 1362, although the date of the extant building is not known with certainty. Three early phases of construction have been hypothesised in recent studies of the building, and it was hoped that dendrochronological study might be able to confirm their veracity and date them more accurately. Unfortunately, most of the trees felled for this building were under fifty years old and only three timbers dated, their felling date range suggesting a period for the construction of the third proposed phase in the early AD 1380s. It is suggested that a programme of tree-ring studies is needed in this region to improve the chances of successful dendrochronological dating in the future.
- Report Number:
- 7/1999
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 13
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
