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All Saints' Church, Gazeley, Suffolk : Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Roof of the South Aisle |
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Historic England Research Reports
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Abstract: |
Sampling was curtailed at this site after only six timbers had been cored, as the remaining timbers were judged to be from faster-grown trees than those sampled, and the cores taken had yielded relatively short sequences. Nevertheless, three sequences, all from the west end of the roof, did cross-match, and a 92-year long site sequence was dated to the period AD 1312-1403. Only one timber retained sapwood, giving a likely felling date of AD 1371-1403, whilst a second timber retained the heartwood-sapwood boundary, giving a likely felling date range of AD 1412-44. Clearly, these two timbers give two non-overlapping felling date ranges, but with the third timber sequence also ending in the late fourteenth century, an early fifteenth-century date for the roof is suggested, but cannot be conclusively proven due to the lack of dating evidence from the centre and eastern end of the roof. |
Author: |
M. C. Bridge
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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All Saints' Church |
County: |
Suffolk |
District: |
West Suffolk |
Parish: |
GAZELEY |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 571930, 264170 (Easting, Northing)
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englishh2-107978 |
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28/2007 |
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A4 heat-bound report of 10pp (ISSN 1749 8775)
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01 Feb 2018 |