Tables of Tree-Ring Dated Buildings in England and Wales
Since 1980 lists of tree-ring dating reports have been published by the Vernacular Architecture Group in their annual journal Vernacular Architecture. Tree-ring dates and reports can now be referred to in individual volumes of Vernacular Architecture, on-line via the Archaeology Data Service web site, and on-line at some tree-ring dating laboratory web sites. These resources establish the felling dates and date-ranges of timbers employed in more than 3500 discrete building phases. In addition to dating individual building phases, the data is becoming sufficiently robust to enable comparative studies to be made.
Tables for data up to 2011 were originally compiled as the background data for ‘Structural trends in English Medieval Buildings: new insights from dendrochronology’, VA 43 (2012). The tables served as additional references to the sources employed in the compilation of that paper, which illustrates several applications of the systematically organised data now available.
As the tables facilitate access to such a large academic resource, the VAG is making them more widely available via this web page. The tables are available in two forms: NATIONAL LISTS arranged mainly by half-century and COUNTY LISTS approximately in chronological order. The tables were updated in September 2021.
Please note: Before using the index for the first time you are recommended to read or print the INTRODUCTION AND GUIDANCE document, which includes a key to the abbreviations used on the tables.
| INTRODUCTION AND GUIDANCE |
| ENGLAND (tables revised September 2021) | |
| NATIONAL LISTS by date: | COUNTY LISTS: |
| 850-1099 |
Bedfordshire
Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland and Westmorland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire |
| WALES (tables revised September 2021) | |
| NATIONAL LISTS by date: | COUNTY LISTS: |
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Anglesey
Brecknock Caernarfonshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Denbighshire Flintshire Glamorgan Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomery Pembrokeshire Radnorshire |
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