Site Event/Activity record ESF21463 - Tree-Ring Analysis, Timbers from Mill House, Bridge Street

This large house of three elements, a hall and two cross wings, is thought on stylistic grounds to date from the late-fifteenth century. It was found to contain oak, ash, and elm timbers in its framing. The oaks from the primary structure were found to be very fast-grown, and could not be dated. A single component of a floor inserted in the hall was found to have used a timber felled in spring or summer of AD 1617, slightly later than had been previously proposed. Although this phase is only represented by a single timber, this major component has to be primary to that phase and is unlikely to have been re-used from elsewhere. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future Not known Associated Identifiers: LBS No. 277820 Related HER No. ALP 013 NMR No. 1553656 Project Type: Building Recording Methods and Techniques: Dendrochronological Survey Reason for Investigation: Research Site status: Listed Building Monument Type(s)/Period(s): HOUSE Medieval , HOUSE Post Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): N/A None PROJECT LOCATION Area 500.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL8785349205 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Organisation: University College, London Brief originator: None Design originator: English Heritage Director/Manager: Martin Bridge Supervisor: Martin Bridge 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Recipient: National Monuments Record Contents: Survey Media: Report BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM MILL HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET, ALPHETON, SUFFOLK Author(s)/Editor(s): Bridge, M. C. Other Bibliographic Details: 2/2002 Date: 2002 Issuer/Publisher: English Heritage Place of Issue or Publication: Portsmouth Description: A4 bound report of 14pp (ISSN 1749 8775)