Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Springfield, Post Office Lane, South Chard, Somerset
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cliff Litton
Analysis undertaken on seven samples taken from the timbers of the roof of this building resulted in the construction and dating of a single site sequence. This site sequence contains six samples and spans the period AD 1366-1445. three of these samples have complete sapwood and a last ring date of AD 1445, the felling date of the timbers represented. Interpretation of the sapwood rings, where present, of the other dated samples points to these timbers also having been felled in AD 1445. Prior to tree-ring analysis being carried out this building was thought to date from the fifteenth century. The timbers of its roof are now known to have been felled in AD 1445.
- Report Number:
- 83/2004
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 18
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
