Paired 14C measurements on European and North American oak from Historic Buildings in England

Alex Bayliss; Anne Crone; Michael Dee; Bisserka Gaydarska; Cathy Tyers; Lukas Wacker

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165919

Paired ¹⁴C measurements on European and North American oak from Historic Buildings in England

Alex Bayliss, Anne Crone, Michael Dee, Bisserka Gaydarska^*, Cathy Tyers, Lukas Wacker

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Abstract

The independent evidence of radiocarbon wiggle-matching suggests that the dating of American oak timbers found in English building by ring-width dendrochronology is robust. The offset between contemporaneous same laboratory pairs of measurements on American and European tree-rings is 5.9 ± 3.8 BP (American wood older), which is not statistically significant.

Original language	English
Article number	165919
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume	570
Early online date	22 Nov 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165919
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2026

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In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 570, 165919, 01.01.2026.

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