Site Event/Activity record ESF21461 - Radiocarbon Wiggle-matching of Second Floor of the Bell Tower, Church of St Andrew, Wissett

Analysis by dendrochronology had been undertaken previously on samples from the second floor of the bell tower of this church. Two of the samples cross-matched, but neither the mean sequence nor the individual timbers could be dated. A series of six radiocarbon measurements was undertaken on samples from the mean chronology once tree-ring analysis has failed to produce absolute dating. Wiggle-matching of these results against the currently internationally-agreed calibration data set, suggests that these timbers were felled in cal AD 1095 - 1135 (13% probability) or cal AD 1145 - 1205 (82% probability). Consequently it appears that the second floor of the bell tower at St Andrew's, Wissett is a survival of the original twelfth-century construction. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future Not known Associated Identifiers: Related HER No. WSS 012 LBS No. 282125 NMR No. 1553658 Project Type: Building Recording Methods and Techniques: Dendrochronological Survey Reason for Investigation: Research Site status: Listed Building Monument Type(s)/Period(s): CHURCH Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): N/A None PROJECT LOCATION Area 20.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TM36617929 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Organisation: English Heritage Centre for Archaeology Brief originator: None Design originator: English Heritage Director/Manager: Alex Bayliss Supervisor: C Bronk Ramsey DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: English Heritage Contents: Survey Media: Images raster / digital photography, Survey PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: National Monuments Record Contents: Survey Media: Report BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of the Second Floor of the Bell Tower at the Church of St Andrew, Wissett, Suffolk Author(s)/Editor(s): Bayliss, A. , Bronk Ramsey, C. , Hamilton, D. And van der Plicht, J. Other Bibliographic Details: 32/2006 Date: 2006 Issuer/Publisher: English Heritage Place of Issue or Publication: Portsmouth Description: A4 heat-bound report of 19pp (ISSN 1749 8775)