'Rev Thomas Bayes: Get Ready to Wiggle' — Bayesian Modelling, Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching, and the North Wing of Baguley Hall

Vernacular Architecture

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-97

  Hamilton, W Derek ^a   Bayliss, Alex ^b   Menuge, Adam ^b   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^b   Cook, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 77949684109     PISSN: 03055477     EISSN: 17496292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174962907X248083     Document Type: Article

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47. Although Nayling (2002) docs provide a felled after dale of AD 1420 for a timber in the south wing, due to the consistent low t- values produced by this timber it is ‘undated’ in all subsequently published material.