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Scientific Dating of Timbers from Grey Mare's Tail Tower, Warkworth Castle, Near Alnwick, Northumberland |
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Historic England Research Reports
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Analysis by dendrochronology was undertaken on samples from two window lintels at this site. There was no cross-matching between them and they could not be dated individually. It has therefore not been possible to provide tree-ring dating evidence indicating whether these two lintels relate to the original early fourteenth-century construction of the Tower, or a later phase of modification or repair. Subsequently a series of eight contiguous decadal samples from one of the lintels (WKWA01) was submitted for radiocarbon dating by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Analysis of these results by wiggle-matching suggests that this timber was felled in the early-fourteenth century and is a survival from the primary phase of construction. |
Author: |
Alison Arnold
Alex Bayliss
Derek Hamilton
R E Howard
C D Litton
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Northumberland SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2006
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Grey Mare's Tail Tower, Warkworth Castle |
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WARKWORTH |
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Northumberland |
County: |
Northumberland |
Country: |
England |
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Tower |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Grey Mares Tail Tower Warkworth Castle Near Alnwick Northumberland |
Grid Reference: 425800, 622000 (Easting, Northing)
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englishh2-107718 |
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34/2006 |
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A4 heat-bound report of 24pp (ISSN 1749 8775)
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Created Date: |
28 Nov 2016 |