Tyers, I. (1999). TREE RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM PASTON GREAT BARN, NORFOLK. Fort Cumberland: Historic England. https://doi.org/10.5284/1033927. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 TREE RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM PASTON GREAT BARN, NORFOLK
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Series:		 Historic England Research Reports
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Abstract:		 Paston Great Barn is a huge 20 bay stone-walled barn classified as both a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The roof trusses are alternating tie-beam and hammer-beam types with arch-braces and wall posts rising from corbels on the walls. Queen struts rise from the tie-beams and hammer-beams to the lower of the two collars. The two trusses opposite the full height double doors on the east side are of a third type with stub tie-beams and arch-bracing from the walls to the lower collar. It is undergoing an extensive grant-aided repair programme, aimed at preserving the building so that it may continue to house its colony of rare bats. The tree-ring analysis reported here was funded by English Heritage to inform repair decisions. The results confirm the majority of the extant timber structure is derived from the documented construction by Sir William Paston in 1581. It had been thought possible some of the structure was from either later undocumented repairs or from re-used timbers obtained from several nearby demolished monastic properties also owned by the Paston family. The resultant chronology is of interest in that the site is both geographically remote from the other contemporaneous tree ring chronologies and likely to be of coastal origin. The poor state of preservation of the timbers makes the recovery of sapwood on the samples and the identification of the heartwood/sapwood boundaries especially difficult in this building. The surviving sapwood has been so extensively attacked by deathwatch beetle that there was no opportunity to obtain bark-edge from the sampled material.
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Author:		 I Tyers
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Publisher:		 Historic England
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Norfolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 1999
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Site: Paston Great Barn
Parish: PASTON
District: North Norfolk
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid Reference: 632190, 334538 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) N/A (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BARN (Monument Type England)
1581 (Auto Detected Temporal)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: englishh2-115561
OBIB: 54/1999
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Note:		 A4 bound report of 23pp (ISSN 1749 8775)
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016