EDO5975 - Priest's House Museum, Wimborne Minster; tree-ring dating 1992

Fifteen cores were obtained, eight from the main range and seven from the northern cross-wing of the building. Of these, four from the main range and three from the cross-wing had complete sapwood. Two samples from the main range dated, giving a felling date in the late summer/autumn of AD1634. Three samples from the cross-wing dated, giving the last measured ring date of AD1545; none had any sapwood or the heartwood/sapwood transition, so a terminus post quem of AD1555 was offered, though it was thought likely that the timbers were felled some time after this. Ten other samples failed to date either with the dated samples or with national and regional reference chronologies. The site produced a 376 ring chronology, promising to be useful for future dating.