SNN105496 - Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers Supplied From 'Tanglewood', 24 High Street, Great Doddington, Northamptonshire

Three sections of timber previously removed from this house were supplied by Northamptonshire Heritage (Northamptonshire County Council) for dendrochronological analysis. Two of the timbers were from the blades of a smoke-blackened A-frame removed from the roof, the third was a floor beam thought to be original to the insertion of the present floor. The tree-ring patterns from the two A-frame blades matched each other and were combined into a single sequence which dated AD1305-1383. Making allowances for the missing sapwood, the most likely range for the felling of these timbers is AD1390-1419. The single sequence from the floor beam retained its complete sapwood and was found to have come from a tree felled in the late spring/early summer AD 1735.