Daubeneys, High Street, Colerne, Wiltshire: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers

Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 25 of the 27 samples taken from Daubeneys. This resulted in the production of two site chronologies, CLDBSQ01 and CLDBSQ02, incorporating a total of 21 samples. CLDBSQ01 can be dated as spanning the years AD 1347-1497, whereas CLDBSQ02 remains undated. The 16 dated samples in CLDBSQ01 indicate a programme of felling in the last few years of the fifteenth century in the hall and stable roofs and the stable ceiling, although at least one timber from the stable end roof was felled in the middle of the following decade. It is possible that several timbers from the hall end roof were felled several decades earlier towards the middle of the latter half of the fifteenth century.