TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL, PETERBOROUGH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE: STRUCTURAL TIMBERS FROM THE NAVE ROOF AND NORTH-WEST PORTICO
Author(s): Ian Tyers
Tree-ring analysis was undertaken on samples from 74 structural timbers from two areas of the roof of Peterborough Cathedral. The results confirm the interpretation, based on documentary and structural evidence, of the construction sequence of the nave and north-west portico. The nave roof appears to be the product of a building campaign of the late-twelfth century, although the far west end of the nave includes some timbers from the early thirteenth-century. The north-west portico has a surviving remnant of an early thirteenth-century roof which is of broadly similar date to the later timbers at the west end of the nave.
- Report Number:
- 9/1999
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 26
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
