ENN110097 - 12 Park Street, 2020 (Tree-ring analysis)

Seven samples were taken from principal rafters and purlins in the roof of this property. Two sets, each of three samples, appear to have been derived from a common parent tree, and were combined to produce two individual tree mean series. A site master was made from these two tree series, and the remaining single ring-width series, and this was dated to the period AD 1634-1747. Only one sample retained complete sapwood, but one had complete sapwood detached from the main core, with few or no rings lost, allowing a narrow felling date range to be applied. Two other samples, which were later found to have come from the same parent tree, also lost a few rings on coring, and also allowed a narrow felling date range to be applied. The dendrochronological evidence therefore suggests construction in AD 1748 or AD1749, or within a year or two after this date.