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Borley Church, Hall Road, Borley, Essex: Dendrochronological investigation and radiocarbon wiggle-matching of oak timbers from the nave and chancel roofs

Bridge, Martin; Bayliss, Alex; Dee, Michael; Palstra, Sanne; (2022) Borley Church, Hall Road, Borley, Essex: Dendrochronological investigation and radiocarbon wiggle-matching of oak timbers from the nave and chancel roofs. (Research Report Series 189/2020 ). Historic England: Portsmouth, UK.

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Abstract

Repair work was too far advanced to give access to the chancel roof timbers, although what could be seen looked similar in character to the nave roof timbers, to which access was also restricted. Sapwood disintegrated on most cores, with the result that most cores retained limited numbers of sapwood rings, and all samples therefore had less than 65 rings. Only two timbers cross-matched, but none could be dated by ring-width dendrochronology. Radiocarbon wiggle-matching of one of the two cross-matching cores suggests that these were felled in 1464–1485 cal AD (95% probability; borl63m felling), which is in accordance with fifteenth-century date of these roofs expected on typological grounds. Although only two timbers have been dated by the analysis, these appear to be representative of the surviving fabric and suggest that this is largely medieval in date.

Type: Report
Title: Borley Church, Hall Road, Borley, Essex: Dendrochronological investigation and radiocarbon wiggle-matching of oak timbers from the nave and chancel roofs
Publisher version: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/re...
Language: English
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Keywords: Dendrochronology, Radiocarbon, Standing building
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10159188
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