Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory - Virginia


Virginia

East Farm

Findowrie, Keswick, Virginia (38.030724, -78.311866)


Primary House Felling Date: Summer 1782, Summer 1781


Site Master 1597-1781 (yellow pine) FWVAx1 (t = 7.42 CPZ3; 6.06 TNR; 5.51 gss1).


Findowrie is a one-and-a-half-story house with three exterior brick end chimneys and a lean-to on the north end.


Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the summer of 1781 and the summer of 1782.


Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2018 “The Tree-Ring Dating of Findowrie, Keswick, Virginia”, unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2018/04



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Jane Seiter, Ph.D

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