Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Manor House, High Street and Kings Street, Fordwich, Kent
Author(s): Cliff Litton, Alison Arnold
Analysis undertaken on seventeen samples from beams at this property resulted in the construction of a single site sequence and two individually dated samples. Site sequence KMFASQ01, of 293 rings, contains twelve samples and spans the period AD 1264-1556. One of the samples has complete sapwood and a last ring date of AD 1556, the felling date of the timber represented. Eight further samples have the heartwood/sapwood boundary ring, which allows an estimated felling date for the timbers represented to be calculated to within the range AD 1549-72, consistent with an AD 1556 felling also. Sample KMF-A06 was dated individually to the period AD 1510-56. This sample has complete sapwood and so its last ring is the felling date. Sample KMF-A16 spans the period AD 1289-1459. This sample does not have the heartwood/sapwood boundary ring and so no estimated felling date can be calculated except to say that this would be AD 1475 at the earliest, but could be much later. Tree-ring analysis of timbers from this house has shown it to be built from trees felled in AD 1556.
- Report Number:
- 7/2003
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 20
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
