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Recalibrating the work of Cecil Hewett
Prior to the creation of an English tree-ring chronology in the late 1980s, typology was the main method by which to date a timber structure. Cecil Alec Hewett (1926-1998) pioneered buildings typologies for medieval carpentry joints and timber-framed buildings in south-eastern England (Gibson and Andrews 1998, online). In Hewett’s seminal work English Historic Carpentry the inner sleeve reads “he [Hewett] has shown that the methods of assembling timber buildings, particularly the joints used, follow a strict historical sequence, as datable as ceramics” (Hewett 1980a, inner sleeve). In the case of Hewett, typology is defined as being “historically diagnostic because they are historically unique, that is, they are ‘peculiar to a given time and place’” (Sackett 1977, 371) and therefore, progress from the archaic to the mechanically advanced in a datable sequence of ‘style and function’ (Ibid.). Continue reading
Medieval Buildings Archaeology
In Hampshire over 107 medieval timber-framed buildings survive and have been successfully tree-ring dated, between AD 1250 and 1530 (Miles et al. 2007, online); 95 of which have been surveyed as part of this project. The Hampshire Dendrochronology Project has … Continue reading
Dr R Haddlesey BSc MSc PhD
I am now Dr Richard Haddlesey!
Thank you to all those that have helped in the journey – especially all the home owners who have made my research possible. Continue reading
Thesis Abstract
The Thesis title is: “A Re-evaluation of Late-medieval Joint Chrono-Typologies (c1250-1530) in the Light of Recent Dendrochronological Investigations in Hampshire” The main focus of this thesis is to establish the usefulness of a timber joint typology, produced by dendrochronology between … Continue reading
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A Prezi about my background
The Prezi is a brief background as to why I undertook my research in the first place. Continue reading
