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- Lab number
- S-2195
- Field number
- CMC-1242
- Material dated
- linden wood; bois de tilleul
- Taxa dated
- Tilia sp.
- Locality
- on the site of Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 D/12
- Submitter
- M. Laver
- Date submitted
- November 14, 0097
- Measured Age
- 315 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 315 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Historic; historique
- Context
- central section of a church altar piece pre-dating the chapel
- Associated taxa
- Flora: Tilia sp
- Additional information
- 13.21 g submitted
- Comments
- BdCv-no #, the Chapel Built in One Day: A sample from the altar was submitted by the Canadian Conservation Institute for radiocarbon dating, and art historical evaluations were sought to complement the dating results. The Roman Catholic Chapel was erected in one day, on 31 August 1843, incorporating elements previously prepared, including the altar. The altar itself is completely undocumented, but the heavily overpainted sculptures undergoing conservation treatment are similar to the more excellent recorded examples of master carvers' work. One art historian noted stylistic similarities to a work of Fritz Mayer van den Bergh which dates from 1490-1495 in Antwerp or Brussels. A second opinion was that the carving is Flemish and dates from the early 16th century and, more specifically pre-1520 based on the style which was considered to be more gothic than Renaissance. A newspaper clipping from Halifax claims that the wooden carvings were taken from a Flemish church in 1550, but no corroboration is available.