Gigi Bottega, Flying Horse Walk, The Poultry, Nottingham: Tree-ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 19 of the 20 samples (one sample having too few rings for reliable analysis), obtained from different oak timbers throughout that part of the former Flying Horse Inn site now occupied by ‘Gigi Bottega’. This analysis produced a single site chronology comprising 13 samples from timbers from both the first floor and the cellar. This site chronology is 89 rings long overall, these 89 rings being dated as spanning the years AD 1567–1655. Interpretation of the sapwood on the dated samples indicates that the timbers from both the cellar and first floor are largely coeval. The first floor contains at least three timbers, which were felled in AD 1647 and two others, which were probably felled at this date too, plus three timbers, which were felled in AD 1655. The cellar also contains one, and probably two timbers, certainly felled in AD 1655, plus three others, probably cut as part of either the AD 1647 felling or that of AD 1655.
- Report Number:
- 9/2023
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
