Milestone Cottage is a well-timbered 1½ storey chimney house, it has two and a half bays and a gambrel roof. Unusually elm (Ulmus spp.), which is infrequently used in tree-ring studies, was the only tree species identified in the construction. Four elm samples were successfully cross-matched to form an 84-year mean chronology (WICKF-MI).  Although the chronology was not dated, the assemblage of structural components sampled combines with bark evidence to indicate that construction of this building occurred in a single phase. The relatively short span of the site mean sequence established, combined with the current limited availability of reference chronologies for the post medieval and later periods for the Wickford area, suggests that the sequence might have failed to date even if it were oak, the species of tree most commonly used in dendrochronological analysis in this country.

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Moir, A. K. 2003. Dendrochronological analysis of timbers from elm timbers from Milestone Cottage, Wickford, Essex, England. Tree-Ring Services, Dendro Rep, WIMI/20/03: 1-21.

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