Select Publications - Daniel Miles

Haddon-Reece, D, Miles, D, Tapper, M C, and the late Fletcher, J M, 1987 “List 22 - Tree-ring dates”, Vernacular Architecture 18, 54-55

Haddon-Reece, D, Miles, D, and Munby, J T, 1988 “List 23 - Tree-ring dates from the Ancient Monuments Laboratory, HBMCE”, Vernacular Architecture, 19, 43-44

Alcock, N W, Howard, R E, Laxton, R R, Litton, C D, and Miles, D H, (Leverhulme Cruck Project), 1989 “List 31 - Tree-ring dates”, Vernacular Architecture, 20, 43-45 1988 results

Plus date lists for virtually every year since.

Miles, D H, 1995 ‘Analysis of Timberwork’ in E. Lewis “A Sixteenth Century Painted Ceiling from Winchester College”, Proceedings Hampshire Field Club Archaeol Soc 51, 142-6.

Miles, D H, 1995 ‘The Building Accounts and the Existing Building’ in E. Roberts “Edward III’s Lodge at Odiham, Hampshire”, Med. Archaeol. 39, 91-106.

Miles, D, and Russell, H, 1995 “Plumb and Level Marks”, Vernacular Architecture 26, 33-38

Roberts, E, and Miles, D, 1997, “73-77 Winchester Street, Overton, Hants - Tree-ring dated to 1544”, Vernacular Architecture, 28, 120-21

Miles, D, Joyce, N, and Bond, R, 1997 “The Galleried Building, Leominster - Tree-ring dated to 1499/1500”, Vernacular Architecture, 28, 102-4

Miles, D, 1997 “Analysis of an Archaic Roof at Wistanstow, Shropshire - Tree-ring dated to 1200-1221”, Vernacular Architecture, 28, 105-6

Roberts, E, and Miles, D, 1997 “Castle Bridge Cottages, North Warnborough, Hants - Tree-ring dated to 1476 and 1534/5”, Vernacular Architecture, 28, 117-8

Miles, D H, 1997 “The interpretation, presentation and use of tree-ring dates”, Vernacular Architecture 28, 40-56

Miles, D H, 1998 “Arabic Assembly Marks on Frames”, The Mortice and Tenon 7, 14-15

Miles, D H, and Worthington, M J, 1998 “The Tower of London”, in Proceedings of the International Conference Dendrochronology and Environmental Trends 17-21 June, 1998, Kaunas, Lithuania, (eds V Stravinskiene and R Juknys), 37-45, Kaunas

Miles, D H, 2001 “Dendrochronological dating of Tÿ-mawr, Castell Caereinion”, in Montgomeryshire Collections 89, ed W J Britnell

Hill, N, and Miles, D, 2001 “The Royal George, Cottingham, Northamptonshire: an early cruck building”, Vernacular Architecture 32

Miles, D, 2003, “Dating Buildings and Dendrochronology in Hampshire”, in Hampshire Houses 1250 - 1700: Their Dating and Development (ed E Roberts), 220-6, Southampton (Hampshire County Council)

Miles, D, 2003, “The Shropshire Dendrochronology Project”, in Vernacular Buildings of Shropshire (M Moran), 531-8, Logaston Press

Marshall, P, Miles, D, and Heath, D, 2004 “Tree-Ring Dating at Salisbury Cathedral – Informing Repairs”, Conservation Bulletin 45, Spring 2004 (English Heritage), 4-5

Miles, D H 2006, “Refinements in the Interpretation of Tree-Ring Dates for Oak Building Timbers in England and Wales”, Vernacular Architecture 37, 84–96.

Wilson R, Miles D, Loader NJ, et al, 2013 “A millennial long March‐July precipitation reconstruction for southern‐central England”, Climate Dynamics 40 (3‐4): 997–1017.

Alcock, N W, and Miles, D, 2013 The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England, Oxford: Oxbow Books

Harris, R B, and Miles, D, 2013 “Romanesque Westminster Hall and its Roof”, in W. Rodwell and T. Tatton-Brown (eds), Westminster II. The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Palace (BAA Transactions XXXIX, Pt II 2015), 22-71; presented at the BAA summer conference of 2013 in London.

Loader, N J, McCarroll, D, Miles, D, Young, G H F, Davies, D, and Bronk Ramsey, C, 2019 “Tree ring dating using oxygen isotopes: a master chronology for central England”, Journal of Quaternary Science 34 (6) :475-490

Miles, D, Loader, N J, Young, G H F, McCarroll, D, Davies, D, Bronk Ramsey, C, and James, J G, 2019 “Stable Isotope Dating of Historic Buildings”, Vernacular Architecture, 50 (doi:10.1080/03055477.2019.1660955)

Loader, N J, McCarroll, D, Young, G H F, Davies, SD, James, J G, Miles, D, Bronk Ramsey, C, 2019 “Stable isotope tree-ring dates: list 1”,

Vernacular Architecture, 50, 88-93 https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2019.1660956

McCarroll, D, Loader, N J, Miles, D, Stanford, C, Suggett, R, Bronk Ramsey, C, Cook, R, Davies, D, and Young, G H F, 2019 “Oxygen

Isotope Dendrochronology of Llwyn Celyn; one of the Oldest Houses in Wales”, Dendrochronologia, 58 (2019), 10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125653

Duffy J E, McCarroll D, Loader N J, Young G H F, Davies D, Miles D, and Bronk Ramsey C, 2019 “Absence of Age-Related Trends in Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios From Oak Tree Rings”, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 33:841-848

Loader, N J, Young, G H F, McCarroll, D, Davies, D, Miles, D, and Bronk Ramsey, C, 2020 “Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201-2000ce, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings”, Journal of Quaternary Science 35:731-736

McCarroll, D, Duffy, J E, Loader, N J, Young, G H F, Davies, D, Miles, D, and Bronk Ramsey, C, 2020 “Are there enormous age-trends in stable carbon isotope ratios of oak tree rings?”, The Holocene 30:1637-1642

McCarroll, D, Duffy, J E, Loader, N J, Young, G H F, Davies, D, Miles, D, and Bronk Ramsey, C, 2020 “Reply to Comment by S. Helama and V. V. Matskovsky on ‘Absence of Age-Related Trends in Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios From Oak Tree Rings”, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 34

Miles, D and Loader, N, 2020 “Dating the Westminster passageway with isotopic dendrochronology”, British Archaeology July/August 2020, 22-3.

Loader, N J, Miles, D, McCarroll, D, Young, G H F, Davies, D, Bronk Ramsey, C, and James, J G, 2020 “Oxygen isotope dating of oak and elm timbers from the portcullis windlass, Byward Tower, Tower of London”, Journal of Archaeological Science 116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105103

Victoria C Smith, Antonio Costa, Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz, Dario Pedrazzi, Andrea Scifo, Gill Plunkett, Mattieu Poret, Pierre-Yves Tournigand, Dan Miles, Michael W. Dee, Joseph R. McConnell, Ivan Sunyé-Puchola, Pablo Dávila Harris, Michael Sigl, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Nathan Chellman, and Eduardo Gutiérrez, 2020 “The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca 2020 ‘Joven eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003008117

Miles, D, 2021 “Secrets in the Roof of Westminster Hall”, British Archaeology May/June 2021, 36-43.

INTERIM AND SITE REPORTS (UNPUBLISHED):

Over 100 individual unpublished reports have been issued, over half of which have been included in the Ancient Monuments Laboratory (now HE Research Report Series) series. Most are between 5 and 10 pages in length, although some of the AML reports are upwards of 50 pages or more. A few of these are listed below:

Miles, D, Worthington, M J, and Groves, C, 1999 Tree-ring Analysis of the Nave Roof, West Door, and Parish Chest from the Church of St Mary, Kempley, Gloucestershire, Anc Mon Lab Rep, 36/99

Miles, D, 2002 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Roof Carpentry of the Eastern Chapels, North Nave Triforium, and North Porch, Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, Centre for Archaeol Rep, 94/2002

Miles, D, 2002 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Thirteenth-Century Nave Doors at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, Centre for Archaeol Rep, 101/2002

Miles, D, and Haddon-Reece, D 2003 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Round Tower, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, Centre for Archaeol Rep, 53/2003

Miles, D, Howard, R E, and Simpson, W G, 2004 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Tower and Spire at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, Centre for Archaeology Report, 44/2004

Miles, D H, and Bridge, M C, 2005 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Early Medieval Doors at Westminster Abbey, London, Centre for Archaeol Rep, 38/2005

Miles, D, 2007 The Tree-Ring Dating of the White Tower, HM Tower of London (TOL99 and TOL100), London Borough of Tower Hamlets, English Heritage Res Dept Rep Ser 35/2007