New Dating Technique used to prove Llwyn Celyn Farmhouse to Medieval Period
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A new dating technique has been used to prove the famous medieval Welsh farmstead, Llwyn Celyn, and it has been confirmed that the farmhouse sitting in the Black Mountains is no lesser than 600-year-old, the Guardian reports.Llwyn Celyn, a Welsh farmhouse thaNew Dating Technique used to prove Llwyn Celyn Farmhouse to Medieval Period
A new dating technique has been used to prove the famous medieval Welsh farmstead, Llwyn Celyn, and it has been confirmed that the farmhouse sitting in the Black Mountains is no lesser than 600-year-old, the Guardian reports.Llwyn Celyn, a Welsh farmhouse that lies in the Black Mountains, has been a dilapidated building for a considerable period. Its condition was so poor that rainwater ran through its roof and flooded the rooms, though two families of farmers still lived in this farmhouse.According to the Guardian report, conversion experts from the Landmark Trust, a British building conservation charity, which rescues buildings of historic interest or architectural merit, and then makes them available for holiday rental, first thought the farmstead was built in the late 15th-century. They undertook the dating process in 2007, but their repeated attempts to date the timbers using tree ring analysis failed, probably because this technique is not very much effective in a wet climate.The breakthrough came using a technique developed by the Department of Geography of Swansea University, by using technique of analysis of Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon isotopes preserved within the cellulose of a tree’s rings to determine the actual climate conditions in which the tree has grown. Each tree ring has a distinct isotopic signal, so as to measure the amount of each isotope present and the actual age of the timber. This technique is normally used by the scientists to measure climate change. This technique has never been used before to date a historic building.Thus Llwyn Celyn, the 600-year-old building lying in the Black Mountains, in the border of England and Wales, has been found to be one of the few domestic buildings which have survived the destruction immediately after the failed revolt of the Welsh prince Owain Glyndŵr. It has also paved a new way of dating historical buildings, which may be used for dating the timbers. Neil Loader, a Professor of Geography of Swansea University, hopes that this technique will lead through the Roman Era and the Bronze Age.https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more