All Saints Church, Sancton, Near Market Weighton, East Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Belfry Floor and Bellframe

Author(s): Dr Martin Bridge

Fourteen timbers were sampled from the belfry floor and the bellframe. Six samples were found to have too few rings to be considered for further analysis. Six samples, representing timbers in both the belfry floor and the bellframe, matched each other and appear to form a group of timbers most likely felled at the same time. Their ring-width series were averaged to produce a site chronology, which was subsequently dated to the period AD 1620–1719. Three timbers retained complete sapwood; two were found to have been felled in winter AD 1719/20 and one in spring AD 1720. This dates the construction of the present belfry floor and bellframe to AD 1720, or within a year or two after this date. Two further samples failed to date.

Report Number:
82/2009
Series:
Research Department Reports
Pages:
15
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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