QUB metadata references

Here is the place to list text which clarify the geographical origin for sets of QUB-files.

England

• An English Tree-Ring Chronology, A.D. 404-1216 (JENNIFER HILLAM) http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol25/25_031_044.pdf
• An English chronology 434 BC - AD 315 mentioned by English Heritage: Dendrochronology: Guidelines on producing and interpreting dendrochronological dates (2004) (but by almost no others).

Alchester

• "There is a key dendrochronological date from a gatepost timber at Alchester which demonstrates that this structure was probably built in AD 44 (Sauer 2001, 72) and thus provides not only the earliest secure independent dating for a military feature anywhere in Roman Britain but also a key starting point for understanding the Roman conquest of the region and the early development of the complex sequence at Alchester itself." http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/assets/content/bcc/docs/archaeology/A_ST_Oxford_5_solent_thames_roman_oxon_jan_08.pdf p.4

See also Wikipedia (English) article about Alchester_Roman_Town. Location: 51°52′42″N 1°10′10″W

Roman Londinium. (London)

• Wikipedia (English) article about No_1_Poultry AD 47 (not QUB)

N. England

Carlisle

• Wikipedia (English) article about Luguvalium (AD 72, AD 165?), 54°53′42″N 2°56′13″W
• 3 collections without overlap(?) can be created out of the QUB-material: AD 1063-1600, AD 467-770, Undated 367 years.

Swan Carr

• sub-fossil oaks from Swan Carr near Durham (northern England) (Long span, 1 Mill. BC) M G L Baillie, J R Pilcher, and G W Pearson: Dendrochronology at Belfast as a background to High-Precision Calibration, Radiocarbon, Vol 25, No. 2, 1983, P 171-1781. p.174.

Durham

• Durham (AD 903-1094 - own dating/TA) 54°46′34″N 1°34′24″W

Scotland

• M.G.L. Baillie: An Oak Chronology for South Central Scotland Tree Ring Bulletin vol. 37, 1977.

Ireland

• Navan and Dorsey are supposed to overlap in the 6th-1st centuries BC, running from 575-95BC (Baillie & Brown, 'Dendrochronology of Irish Bog Trackways', pp.395-402 in B. Raftery (ed), Trackway Excavations in the Mountdillon Bogs, Co. Longford, 1985-1991 (Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit Transactions Vol.3, 1996), fig.504).

Northern Ireland

"BELIM"

The "BELIM" masterchronology AD 1001-1970 is described (containing also data for the Master Chronology) in Michael G. L. Baillie: The Belfast Oak Chronology to AD 1001, Tree-Ring Bulletin, vol. 37, 1977 (Geocoord data approximately according to map in the article). It is also available among the East Anglia Incident chronology files.

• Toomebridge (natural) 54°45′N 6°27′W
• Blackwater (natural) 54°29′N 6°37′W
• Lough Eyes (Crannog) 54°20′N 7°30′W
• Corban Lough (Crannog) 54°14′N 7°29′W
• Mill Lough (Crannog) 54°13′N 7°23′W
• Dunsoghley 53°25′36″N 6°19′36″W (near Dublin)

Crannogs in northern Ireland

• • Island MacHugh. AD 594ą9, 53°37′N 6°47′W
  • Island MacHugh. AD 627ą9
  • Mill Lough. AD 552, 54°15′N 7°45′W
  • Mill Lough. AD 643ą9
  • Ross Lough. AD 570ą9, 54°23′N 7°42′W
  • Ross Lough. AD 614
  • Teeshan AD 82 - AD 581, a crannog, 54°53′43″N 6°18′41″W

• LODGE, "Hunting Lodge" at NE shore of Cullyhanna Logh, i.e 5 km N of Crossmaglen in county Armagh. 3475+/-75BP, 3305+/-50BP Jennifer Hillam: The Dating of Cullyhanna Hunting Lodge, Irish Archaeological Research Forum, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1976), pp. 17-20
• 1973 Pilcher reports about a floating chronology, probably early centuries of the first millennium AD. Pilcher: Tree-Ring Research in Ireland, Tree-Ring Bulletin, vol. 33, 1973. Containing a map of locations in N. Ireland and 4 mean curves for the floating chronology: Balloo Cottage 1, Teeshan, Mill Lough 3, Allistragh.
• Pilcher et al.: A Long Sub-Fossil Oak Tree-Ring Chronology from the North of Ireland, New Pytol. (1977) 79, 713-729 (Abstract) The full article contains the mean curve.
• M G L Baillie, J R Pilcher, and G W Pearson: Dendrochronology at Belfast as a background to High-Precision Calibration, Radiocarbon, Vol 25, No. 2, 1983. The structure of the BC-chronology described.

N NW Central plain

• Atlone 53°25′N 7°56′W M. G. L. Baillie: Dublin Medieval Dendrochronology, Tree-Ring Bulletin, vol. 37, 1977 Only one sample: QUB:Q1984 AD872-1138
• Crannogs in the area to the west and north-west of the central plain of Ireland. B A Crone: Crannogs and chronologies in Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 123 (1993), 245-54
  • Midges Island. AD 570ą9 [location?]
  • Lough Tamin. AD 584ą9 [location?]
  • Lough Tamin. Ao618ą9
  • Moynagh Lough. AD 625 53°49′N 6°45′W
  • Moynagh Lough. AD 748
  • Kilnock. AD 722ą9 [location?]

Central East coast

Drogheda

53°42′N 6°21′W

• Drogheda
• BathHouse

Dublin

53°21′N 6°16′W

• Clansy [Barracks] (56 files)
• Ormond Quai (4 files)
• Wood Quai (43 files)
• Christchurch Cathedral
• High Street
• Christchurch Place
• Winetavern Street
• Turvey (Castle) 53°29′41″N 6°10′55″W
• Oldbawn (House) 53°29′32″N 6°10′33″W
• Patrick Street

Southern Ireland coast

Cork

• St Partick's road http://www.corkcity.ie/services/environment/drainage/corkmaindrainage/cmd_past_discovered.PDF

Central South Ireland

• Annaholty bog (Bog bridge about 40 BC) (10 files) Abstracts for Wetland Archaeology in Ireland and Beyond

General

• Ian Tyers, Jennifer Hillam, and Cathy Groves: Trees and woodland in the Saxon period: the dendrochronological evidence (schema on overlapping between the sites building up the English and Irish chronologies)

Problems

• No Irish oaks found during 95-13 BC!: Baillie 1995 p. 56
• No English oaks AD 316-403! For the historic period there is now a continuous sequence that runs from the present back to AD 404, and another from Roman contexts covering 434 BC – AD 315. The latter is still reliant on cross-links with Ireland and Germany for its dating since no English tree-ring sequence has been found that spans the fourth century AD. English Heritage: Dendrochronology: Guidelines on producing and interpreting dendrochronological dates (2004)