I do recollect reading somewhere a paper on dating coppice stools but a
trawl through the library has failed to track it down. I'd say ask Keith
Kirby at English Nature is your best bet.
As Mark implied, the oldest coppice stools are lime, but ash can be very
long lived. Hazel is the junior but will probably have died from shading in
the intervening 80 years so I suppose is not a species you are looking at.
I wonder if Fiona's friend would post back if he/she comes up with some
references?
Quoting DCox@xxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk:
On behalf of Fiona:
A colleague of mine who works with broadleafed woodlands and woodland
grant
schemes is currently doing some work in a woodland which has in the
past been coppiced, possibly not for about 70/80 years but prior to
that on a fairly regular basis. Does anyone have any experience of how
you can date the trees which have been coppiced, perhaps by the
root/tree base? Has any work been done on this sort of thing? Are
there rings to count in the root base??
Any ideas or references would be great.
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