Nat Alcock

Biographic Data

ID6048875
NAMENat Alcock
GIVEN NAMESNat
FAMILY NAMEAlcock
SIGNATUREALCOCK N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Changing Approaches to Local History

    Christopher Dyer, Robert Bearman et al.EDITORBOOKChanging Approaches to Local…2022

  • Tree-Ring Date Lists 2019

    N W Alcock, Nat Alcock et al.ARTICLEVernacular Architecture2019

    These results cover the dating of timbers from buildings since the last published list of dated buildings from Ireland (D. Brown, “List 276: Irish Dendrochronological Results from 2010 to 2015,” Vernacular Architecture 41 (2010): 119–22). Thanks are due to the owners of the buildings and especially everyone who assisted in taking the samples. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, http://www.buildingofireland.ie/, was used for obtainin…

  • Great Moor Farm, Sowton, Devon

    John R L Thorp, N W Alcock et al.ARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology2019References: 2

    The demolished Great Moor Farm provided a unique opportunity to study the development of a Devon farmhouse combining detailed fabric recording, excavation and documentary research. The building had a complex structural history, and neither the recording of the standing structure nor the excavation on its own provided sufficient information for the confident identification of the sequence of phases and their dating. The development of the house ca…

  • English or French Carpenters in Fourteenth-Century Normandy? The Manoir De La Haule at Aclou Revisited

    N W Alcock, Nat AlcockARTICLEVernacular Architecture2018References: 6

    The Manoir de la Haule at Aclou was described by Bans, Gaillard-Bans and Smith in 1995 as having a base-cruck hall.1 The roof has now been dated to 1360–1d, and study has shown that it is of short-principal rather than base-cruck form. The structure is described in detail and the historical evidence re-examined, suggesting a scenario for its construction. English and French parallels for the plan and structure of the house are considered; it is c…

  • Elizabethan Inventories and Wills of the Exeter Orphans’ Court

    N W Alcock, Nat AlcockARTICLEVernacular Architecture2016

    Elizabethan Inventories and Wills of the Exeter Orphans’ Court." Vernacular Architecture, 47(1), p. 122

  • West Country Households, 1500-1700

    John Allan, Nat Alcock et al.EDITORBOOKWest Country Households, 1500-17002015

    Essays on the development of the post-medieval house, its contents and decoration. During the last forty years, South-West England has been the focus of some of the most significant work on the early modern house and household in Britain. Its remarkable wealth of vernacular buildings has been the object of muchattention, while the area has also seen productive excavations of early modern household goods, shedding new light on domestic history. Th…

  • Romanesque Roofs

    Lynn T Courtenay, Lynn Courtenay et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology2015Cited by: 1

    MASONRY EVIDENCE in the roofless abbey church of Jumièges, Normandy, demonstrates that the original Romanesque roof (c 1067) was of common-tiebeam form, with trusses set at about 1 m intervals, each with a tiebeam carrying rafters. Significant carpentry details can also be determined, including the presence of a cogged wall plate. In the context of this analysis, we examine the form, distribution and date of over 250 common-tiebeam roofs in North…

  • A Fourteenth-Century Illustration of a Cruck

    N W Alcock, Nat AlcockARTICLEVernacular Architecture2013References: 1

    The illustration to the entry for Arena (sand) in the later fourteenth-century encyclopaedic compilation, Omne Bonum, is identified as representing a cruck truss with cusping, typical of the Welsh Marches, with examples tree-ring dated from 1402 to the early sixteenth century. The image also includes what is apparently the earliest representation of carpentry tools in an English context

  • Radiocarbon Dating of a Reused Cruck Blade from Warwickshire and its Implications for the Typology of Cruck Construction

    N W Alcock, Nat Alcock et al.ARTICLEVernacular Architecture2009Cited by: 1References: 3

    Radiocarbon dating using Bayesian wiggle-matching of multiple dates has been applied to a cruck blade reused in a seventeenth-century farmhouse, Church End Farm, Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, which was believed on typological grounds to date from the thirteenth century. However, the date range obtained for the felling of the timber was 1423–46 cal AD (95% probability). This unexpectedly late date has led to a re-evaluation of the original dating…