United Methodist Church, Townsend - MA013 Additional Site Information Daniel Miles Purpose of Collection: Archaeological Dating Tree Species: White and Red Oak, Q. alba and Q. rubra Funding Sources: This material was paid for by a grant from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) together with an anonymous donor and the Boston central Artery Archaeological Project. Reference: Miles, D.W.H., M.J. Worthington, and A.A. Grady, 2002, Development of Standard Tree-ring Chronologies for Dating Historic Structures in Eastern Massachusetts, Phase II, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Interim Report 2002/6, Boston, MA. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : MA013.CRN Measurement file name : MA013.RWL Date checked : 22MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1577 Ending year : 1769 Principal investigators: D.Miles Site name : United Methodist Church, Townsend Site location : Mass. Species information : QUSP OAK Latitude : 4240 Longitude : -07142 Elevation : 15M Series intercorrelation: 0.537 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.177 Avg standard deviation : 0.452 Avg autocorrelation : 0.749 Number dated series : 9 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 1 Pct problem segments : 2.44 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: ma013.rwl 10:36 Tue 22 Mar 2005 Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Correlations of 50-year dated segments, lagged 25 years Flags: A = correlation under .3281 but highest as dated; B = correlation higher at other than dated position Seq Series Time_span 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1624 1649 1674 1699 1724 1749 1774 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 tmc1 1642 1769 .38 .43 .63 .52 .53 2 tmc2 1577 1700 .66 .69 .59 .40 .42 3 tmc4 1613 1766 .74 .70 .70 .68 .53 .38 4 tmc6 1586 1679 .69 .74 .71 .72 5 tmc7a 1645 1768 .46 .45 .66 .46 .42 6 tmc7b 1652 1768 .51 .71 .64 .64 7 tmc8a 1673 1766 .33 .46 .58 .57 8 tmc8b 1711 1766 .69 .70 9 tmc9 1603 1769 .45 .65 .65 .70 .42 .03B Av segment correlation .67 .66 .58 .52 .61 .55 .47 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: ma013.rwl 10:36 Tue 22 Mar 2005 Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corr //-------- Unfiltered --------\\ //---- Filtered -----\\ No. No. No. with Mean Max Std Auto Mean Max Std Auto AR Seq Series Interval Years Segmt Flags Master msmt msmt dev corr sens value dev corr () --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- 1 tmc1 1642 1769 128 5 0 .475 1.40 4.32 .815 .873 .207 2.58 .410 -.051 1 2 tmc2 1577 1700 124 5 0 .551 .93 1.84 .283 .789 .157 2.56 .423 -.052 1 3 tmc4 1613 1766 154 6 0 .617 .82 2.09 .213 .435 .191 2.95 .408 .049 1 4 tmc6 1586 1679 94 4 0 .663 1.09 2.45 .322 .672 .166 2.63 .470 .016 1 5 tmc7a 1645 1768 124 5 0 .501 1.31 2.61 .400 .692 .165 2.60 .382 -.049 1 6 tmc7b 1652 1768 117 4 0 .583 1.47 3.66 .591 .815 .184 2.78 .453 -.001 1 7 tmc8a 1673 1766 94 4 0 .449 .93 2.03 .365 .879 .144 2.76 .529 -.020 1 8 tmc8b 1711 1766 56 2 0 .704 1.18 1.81 .295 .671 .139 2.77 .495 -.036 1 9 tmc9 1603 1769 167 6 1 .419 1.16 3.88 .637 .907 .200 2.64 .539 -.013 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 1058 41 1 .537 1.14 4.32 .452 .749 .177 2.95 .453 -.015