Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Alcester War Memorial Town Hall, Alcester, Warwickshire
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on timbers from wall posts, the roof and first floor frame of this building resulting in the construction and dating of two site sequences and the individual dating of a single sample. Site sequence ALCCSQ01 contains 25 samples and spans the period 1374-1625 and ALCCSQ02 contains five samples and spans the period 1565-1637. Sample ALC-C34 was matched at a first- ring date of 1633 and a last-measured ring date of 1701. Interpretation of the sapwood suggests that timber used within the roof and the floor frame is broadly contemporary, being the result of an extended programme of felling, the majority of which is likely to have occurred in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Both primary and apparently reused roof timbers are of the same date suggesting a reorganisation of the roof was undertaken utilising original timbers. At least four wall posts and one floor beam are slightly later dating to 1641-66 and 1636-61, respectively. A further floor beam is dated to 1712-37 and is thought to represent a later alteration.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".