TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM HALLGARTH MANOR COTTAGES, HALLGARTH, PITTINGTON, CO DURHAM

Author(s): Robert Howard, R R Laxton, Cliff Litton

Twenty samples were obtained from the roof of number 1 and 3 Hallgarth Manor Cottages (number 2 being unavailable for sampling), and analysed by dendrochronology. This analysis produced two site chronologies. The first site chronology, consisting of seventeen samples, has 289 rings spanning the period AD 1336 - AD 1624. Interpretation of the sapwood would indicate that the timbers of number 1 Hallgarth Manor Cottage, the southern cottage, have an estimated felling date in the range AD 1660 - 70. The timbers of number 3, the northern cottage, are earlier, having an estimated felling date in the range AD 1565 - 70. The second site chronology consists of two samples having 125 rings. This site chronology cannot be dated, but there are structural reasons to believe that the timbers represented are of a different, probably later, phase of felling.

Report Number:
86/2001
Series:
CfA Reports
Pages:
23
Keywords:
Dendrochronology Standing Building

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