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Protecting the Scheduled Historic Buildings and Monuments of Pembridge. A Registered Charity No 1060265

Pembridge the Village - Pembridge has clearly seen many changes since its inception. The village pre-dates the Domesday book. A community has existed at this place for over 1000 years. At one point in its history the village exceeded Leominster in size and was an important centre of commerce during the mediaeval period. Following the Industrial Revolution, Pembridge appeared to "fall off the map" and economic activity declined. The village was left alone to continue its rural traditions in relative isolation and, as a consequence, much of its medieval character remained unspoiled.

Old Post Office, East Street (RCHM 12, SMR 16363)

Results
One of the samples proved unusable, however both the others contained useful numbers of rings complete sapwood and original bark-edge. The two series cross-match a mean series constructed from them was then compared with medieval and post-medieval oak sequences from throughout England, Wales, and elsewhere in Europe. It was apparent that this chronology matched a number of independent reference chronologies at a single consistent position. This position was checked visually and appears to be a reliable match. The correlation of the sequence to other oak reference chronologies indicates a date of AD1350-1538 inclusive for the rings in the series.

Interpretation
Here also interpretation is simple, both samples contains full sapwood and the original bark surface. The end of sample 17 includes the start of spring growth for another year after the last measured ring (which is itself dated to AD1537), whilst the final measured ring on sample 18 (which is dated to AD1538) is an incomplete spring ring. Both timbers were therefore felled in the spring of AD1538.

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What is Dendrochronology or tree ring analysis?

ARCUS Dendrochronology Laboratory
University of Sheffield
West Court
2 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Phone: 0114 222 5107 Fax: 0114 276 3146 Email: dendro@sheffield.ac.uk

For more information please contact the secretary of the Pembridge Amenity Trust info@pembridgeamenitytrust.co.uk