A DOOR IN USE IN TALLINN APPEARED TO BE OVER 600 YEARS OLD
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A DOOR IN USE IN TALLINN APPEARED TO BE OVER 600 YEARS OLD. / Läänelaid, Alar; Daly, Aoife; Ważny, Tomasz; Haneca, Kristof; Uueni, Andres; Sohar, Kristina.
In: Baltic Journal of Art History, Vol. 21, 2021, p. 79-92.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A DOOR IN USE IN TALLINN APPEARED TO BE OVER 600 YEARS OLD
AU - Läänelaid, Alar
AU - Daly, Aoife
AU - Ważny, Tomasz
AU - Haneca, Kristof
AU - Uueni, Andres
AU - Sohar, Kristina
N1 - Funding Information: Aoife Daly and Alar Läänelaid are indebted to European Research Council project TIMBER: Northern Europe’s Timber Resource – Chronology, Origin and Exploitation, grant agreement No. 677152. Kristina Sohar was supported by Mobilitas Pluss returning researcher’s project MOBTP35 financed from the European Regional Development Fund Publisher Copyright: © 2021. Baltic Journal of Art History.All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In a medieval tower in the Tallinn Old Town wall there is a wooden internal door that was suspected of being rather old. The age of the door was determined using dendrochronology. It was possible to measure tree rings from the lower ends of the oak planks of the door. Matching the ring-width series with oak references from northern Europe revealed that the door was over 600 years old, and still in place in medieval Bremen Tower in Tallinn, Estonia. The ring-width series of the door was most similar to oak chronology from the Daugava River. However, this does not mean that the door timbers originate from that region. At present, we do not possess Estonian oak chronologies extending back to that time. Thus, the provenance of the oak for this door remains undecided. The dendrochronological date of the door, AD 1394–1411, can be confirmed and can be narrowed by documentary evidence to AD 1400–1410
AB - In a medieval tower in the Tallinn Old Town wall there is a wooden internal door that was suspected of being rather old. The age of the door was determined using dendrochronology. It was possible to measure tree rings from the lower ends of the oak planks of the door. Matching the ring-width series with oak references from northern Europe revealed that the door was over 600 years old, and still in place in medieval Bremen Tower in Tallinn, Estonia. The ring-width series of the door was most similar to oak chronology from the Daugava River. However, this does not mean that the door timbers originate from that region. At present, we do not possess Estonian oak chronologies extending back to that time. Thus, the provenance of the oak for this door remains undecided. The dendrochronological date of the door, AD 1394–1411, can be confirmed and can be narrowed by documentary evidence to AD 1400–1410
KW - Bremen tower
KW - Dendrochronology
KW - Door
KW - Oak
KW - Tree rings
U2 - 10.12697/BJAH.2021.21.04
DO - 10.12697/BJAH.2021.21.04
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85125060759
VL - 21
SP - 79
EP - 92
JO - Baltic Journal of Art History
JF - Baltic Journal of Art History
SN - 1736-8812
ER -
ID: 322949614