Monument record WFL 005 - Church of St Lawrence

Church of St Lawrence (S1).
Micro-cores were extracted from the three boards on the left hand end, the upper board on the front, and a cleat on the right hand side. One board retained some sapwood, but the core stopped 9 rings short of the heartwood/sapwood boundary. A 209-year chest chronology revealed that the trees used grew in the Baltic region, probably in modern Poland, and the chronology dated to the period 1131-1339. Allowing for some seasoning and transport, the most likely date for the construction of this chest lies in the third quarter of the fourteenth century.
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2007 (S2).