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The Bailiff's Cottage, St Osyth's Priory, Burn Road, St Osyth, Essex: tree-ring analysis of timbers from the roof

Bridge, MC; (2013) The Bailiff's Cottage, St Osyth's Priory, Burn Road, St Osyth, Essex: tree-ring analysis of timbers from the roof. (English Heritage Research Report Sereis 54-2013 ). English Heritage

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Abstract

This roof of 22 trusses is scissor-braced with notched lap joints and shows many features characteristic of thirteenth-century roofs, in particular with those at Gloucester Blackfriars. Eleven timbers dated, of which two were found to have been cut from the same tree. The empirically derived likely date range for the felling of the group of timbers used for construction of the roof is AD 1277–1309. A Bayesian derived combined felling date range for all eleven timbers is AD 1284–92 (95% probability). It is most likely that the trees were used very soon after felling in this relatively humble building. This dates the probable construction of the roof some decades later than the similarly-styled Gloucester Blackfriars roof.

Type: Report
Title: The Bailiff's Cottage, St Osyth's Priory, Burn Road, St Osyth, Essex: tree-ring analysis of timbers from the roof
Publisher version: http://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx...
Language: English
Keywords: Dendrochronology, standing building
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1427136
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