greensted juxta ongar church

detail of the split oak logs of the walls of the nave. the rounded exterior to the outside, the staves are held together with vertical fillets - tongue and groove- and sit into a slot in the sill. for a long time this was deemed an anglo-saxon building of before 1013, but the logs have been dendro-dated to between 1063 and 1100. even so, this was undoubtably built by saxons using a technique going back centuries, and used for their halls and barns before churches.