SDO14391 - All Saints' Church, Kington Magna, Dorset. Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Belfry Floor

A total of eight samples was taken from timbers in the belfry floor. Four timbers dated, including the two major east-west foundation beams. Both these timbers, which may be reused in their current positions, dated to the late-fifteenth, or early sixteenth century. Only two subsidiary beams dated, and these may have come from a single parent tree felled in the mid- to late-fifteenth century. It is suggested that the present floor comprises old timbers reset into their current positions at some time after the late-fifteenth century.