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Wiggle-Matching Using Known-Age Pine from Jermyn Street, London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Cathy Tyers,
Jane Sidell,
Johannes Van der Plicht,
Peter Marshall,
Gordon Cook,
Christopher Bronk Ramsey and
Alex Bayliss
Cathy Tyers
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, West Court, 2 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT, England, United Kingdom
Jane Sidell*
Affiliation:
English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-42 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST, England, United Kingdom
Johannes Van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
Peter Marshall
Affiliation:
Chronologies, 25 Onslow Road, Sheffield, S11 7AF, England, United Kingdom
Gordon Cook
Affiliation:
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride G75 0QF, Scotland, United Kingdom
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, England, United Kingdom
Alex Bayliss
Affiliation:
English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-42 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST, England, United Kingdom
*
Corresponding author. Email: jane.sidell@english-heritage.org.uk
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A slice of pine from the period covered by single-year calibration data (Stuiver 1993) was selected to serve as part of the quality assurance procedures of the English Heritage radiocarbon dating program, following successful wiggle-matching of 14C measurements from structural 15th century English oak timbers (Hamilton et al. 2007). The timber selected was a roofing element from a house on Jermyn Street, central London, demonstrated by dendrochronology to have been felled in AD 1670. Eighteen single-ring samples were dated by the 14C laboratories at Groningen, Oxford, and SUERC: each laboratory was sent a random selection of 6 samples. This approach was intended to mimic the mix of samples and relative ages incorporated into Bayesian chronological models during routine project research. This paper presents the results of this study.

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Type
14C Chronologies, Dendrochronology, Wiggle-Matching, and Calibration Tools
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Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009, pp. 385 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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