6-8 Silver Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Dating of Oak Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis undertaken on samples taken from timbers of this building resulting in the successful dating of eight of them. A wall plate is dated as being felled in the range of AD 1543–68, with a ceiling beam and a king post being a little later, dating to AD 1587–91 and AD 1584–1609, respectively. The other dated timbers have terminus post quem dates for felling at the very end of the fifteenth or in the sixteenth century and are also thought likely to date to the sixteenth century/early-seventeenth century.
- Report Number:
- 7/2023
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 40
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
