Former West Range, First White Cloth Hall, 100 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of ex situ Timbers
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers, Ian Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on samples from 19 oak timbers and one conifer timber, all ex situ, from the former west range of First White Cloth Hall. This analysis produced a single site chronology, comprising samples from 12 of the oak timbers, with an overall length of 111 rings. These rings dated as spanning the years AD 1366–1476. Interpretation of the sapwood on these dated samples indicates that at least three timbers were derived from trees felled in the summer of AD 1476, with it being highly likely that the remaining nine dated timbers were derived from trees felled at, or about, the same time as part of a single programme of felling and construction. As such, this date is somewhat earlier than had been expected based on the documented opening of First White Cloth Hall in the early eighteenth century. The samples from the other oak timbers, some from floor beams, and the conifer timber could not be dated.
- Report Number:
- 52/2019
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 48
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
