QUB Dendrochronology raw data

This page provides access to 40 years of dendrochronological data gathered by the Dendrochronology laboratory, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology (Queen's University Belfast).

The laboratory is in the process of making this data available in a form where it is publicly accessible and can be readily used. The laboratory has always had a policy of co-operating fully with other researchers, on request, over the data it holds, and provides a dendrochronological service available to all.

Additionally, most of the laboratory's modern data is available through the International Tree Ring Data Base. The laboratory is participating in the Digital Collaboratory for Cultural Dendrochronology project, and it is anticipated that most of our data will be made available there in the coming months and years.

The laboratory presents here its raw data, pending the compilation of the fuller presentation of raw data and metadata for these recognised data bases. The material here consists of raw data files, listed in order of file name, which is usually also the identification code of the dendrochrological sample. For each file, the sample name is also given (in brackets).

A brief PDF document summarising the structure of the raw data file is available from Dave Brown on application (d.brown@qub.ac.uk).

These data can be used to build a chronology, as has been done by staff in the dendrochronological laboratory (see references in the PDF file). Doing so involves making decisions about which ring patterns to include, and is thus an intellectual exercise. Other solutions may exist from the same basic collection of ring patterns, depending on choices made by the analyst, which can then be interpreted as seen fit.

We hope that these data will prove useful and informative.

Mr David Brown (Research Fellow, Dendrochronology laboratory)