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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.

The Garth (and Oak View), West Street (RCHM 29, SMR 16384)

Results
All the samples contained useful numbers of rings, but none retained any sapwood. All the series cross-match and 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 AD1315-1466 inclusive for the rings in the series.

Interpretation
Assuming all the samples are from a single phase of construction and adding the minimum and maximum likely values for the missing sapwood to the dates of each timber indicates felling of this group occurred between AD1476 and 1495.

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What is Dendrochronology or tree ring analysis?

Brick House | Fig Tree | Gatehouse | Greyhound | Old Post Office | Old Stores | Swan House | The Garth | West End Farm | Wheelwrights

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
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