Four oak core samples from two main beams in a ground-floor structure were analyzed to determine wood age and felling dates. Beam 1 has a felling date after 1542 ± 6, while Beam 2 provides a more precise felling interval between 1554 and 1562. The ground-floor beam construction of the building at Halstraat 16-18 in Breda was therefore built sometime in the third quarter of the 16th century.
Use Cases
- Dating historical building phases based on precise felling year intervals
- Analyzing timber trade and processing timelines based on the described transport and working lag
- Studying regional oak growth patterns using the described ring series from core samples
Strengths
- Provides precise felling year intervals (e.g., 1554–1562) for individual timbers
- Analysis based on four oak core samples from two distinct main beams
- Results directly date a specific building's construction to the third quarter of the 16th century
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- Doeve, Petra via DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Dendrochronological investigation of timber core samples.
- Time Range
- Timber felling dates circa 1542–1562.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-01 06:10:13; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Halstraat 16-18, Breda, Netherlands.