1. DENDROARCHAEOLOGY
GEOG5839

2. Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, Ulster.

3. Green ash tree being cored on the Sheyenne River, North Dakota.

4. Baillie 1995
Schematic of dendrochronological dating.

5. Baillie 1995
Schematic of dendrochronological dating.

6. Baillie 1982
Same ring width pattern from three different trees.

7. David Brown
Bog oak, Ulster.

8. What does the date
represent?

9. Felling or death, not construction!

10. Sapwood exposed as bark disintegrates, Lassen, California.

11. Anthropogenic modifications of wood.

12. David Brown
Corlea Trackway (1), Co. Longford, RoI.

13. Boundary between heartwood and sapwood.

14. Examples of different sample types.

15. Baillie 1982
Estimating missing sapwood.

16. Dating of Glasgow Cathedral, Scotland.

17. South Dublin Libraries
Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, RoI.

18. Dates of timber from Rathfarnham Castle.

19. Mike Baillie
Killoteran vertical watermill, Co. Waterford, RoI.

20. Haneca and Debonne 2012
Roof-timber of in medieval church, Damme, Belgium.

21. MARINE VESSELS
AND PROVENANCING

23. Correlations of the Skuldelev timbers with British chronologies.

24. Sir John Rogerson Quay, Dublin, RoI.

25. Example of a medieval type cog, as found near Vejby, Denmark.

26. General pattern of wood movement identified by tree rings.

27. Problems
on the horizon..

28. Pickard et al. 2011 Marsden et al. 1989
Satchell 2010
Dug-out canoes, Canada and England.

29. The Uluburun shipwreck, southern Turkey.

30. “Caution should be exercised
concerning a previously stated date
derived from just two poorly
preserved pieces of cargo/dunnage
wood from the famous Uluburun
shipwreck. The quality and security of
the dendrochronological placements
of these samples versus the Bronze-
Iron age chronology are not
especially strong.”
Manning et al. 2001

31. Grissino-Mayer et al. 2004
Rings from the „Messiah‟ violin.

32. Frequency of constructed buildings.

33. Importance of
sapwood

34. Many
caveats

35. Not just
dating