Bridge, Martin;
Bonwick, Luke;
Davies, Martin;
Pearce, David;
(2022)
What do dendrochronology and other timber-dating methods tell us about the history of English post mills?
Vernacular Architecture
, 53
(1)
pp. 31-56.
10.1080/03055477.2023.2253459.
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Abstract
Post mills are a distinctive type of windmill that has had a long history in England. Today only 47 post mills still survive in England. Evidence from 15 of these where their timbers have been subjected to dendrochronological investigations combined with other sources of evidence helps build a picture of the history of each of these mills. Most mills contain timbers from different historical rebuilding phases, but with the main posts often being the oldest component. Bourn Windmill was the earliest of these (the tree from which the main post was made being felled sometime after 1515) but Nutley and Pitstone mills retain almost equally ancient main posts. Scientific timber-dating methods can help corroborate the historical narrative derived from other evidence, such as documentary sources or inscriptions; however, they can also help raise completely new questions, illuminating stages in the history of a structure that were previously unknown or unsuspected.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | What do dendrochronology and other timber-dating methods tell us about the history of English post mills? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03055477.2023.2253459 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2023.2253459 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Post mills; windmill history; dendro-chronology; oxygen isotope dendrochronology; radio-carbon dating |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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 |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186932 |
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