Site Event/Activity record ECH5887 - Tree-Ring Analysis Of Timbers From Nether Alderley Mill, Nether Alderley, Cheshire

A dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on timbers removed from Nether Alderley Mill, resulting in the construction of two dated site sequences and one individually dated sample. The first sequence spanned the period 1531–96 AD, the second spanned the period 1533–96 AD and the individual sample was dated to 1504–94 AD. Four of the timbers samples were established as being felled in the summer of 1596, with interpretation of the sapwood on the other dated samples demonstrating that they were likely to be of a similar date. Documentary evidence suggested that the mill was constructed c 1595–7 and the dendrochronological analysis supports this date.