Dendrochronology at Belfast as a Background to High-Precision Calibration

  • Baillie M
  • Pilcher J
  • Pearson G
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Abstract

The tree-ring program at Belfast originally aimed at the construction of a 6000-year oak chronology. The stimulus for this work came from the large numbers of sub-fossil oaks uncovered in Northern Ireland during land drainage and motorway construction in the late 1960's (Pilcher et al 1977). It became clear that any attempt to build such a long chronology would break naturally into two distinct units. One unit related to the construction of a prehistoric (BC era) chronology dependent on the sampling of large numbers of essentially random sub-fossil timbers. For this unit to be successful, timbers would have to survive relatively uniformly through time. The second chronology building unit was related principally to the AD era, with a natural extension into the first millennium BC at least. This unit was envisaged as the link between the present day and the necessarily floating sub-fossil chronologies. This AD chronology was based on modern, historic, and archaeologic timbers.

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Baillie, M. G. L., Pilcher, J. R., & Pearson, G. W. (1983). Dendrochronology at Belfast as a Background to High-Precision Calibration. Radiocarbon, 25(2), 171–178. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200005452

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