TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM THE ANCIENT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST
Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge
This house was originally a hall house with an octagonal crown-post roof, but now has an inserted floor in the hall. The two-storey jettied crosswings to east and west are also medieval, though their date of construction was unknown. The property was converted into several separate dwellings at a much later date, but recent renovation work has exposed the whole frame. Most timbers were found to be fast-grown oak with too few rings to date dendrochronologically, and some were found to be of elm. Two short sequences from the west wing dated, giving an estimated felling date range of AD 1564-92 based on a single timber with sapwood. A third timber in this range, demonstrably different in the age and slow growth of its parent tree, gave a likely felling date range of AD 1477-1509.
- Report Number:
- 82/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
