INKSHERDS Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of May 2016 www.delawarearchaeology.org May is Archaeology Month

May is Archaeology Month in Delaware . A number of New Castle Chapter Meeting events have been planned across the state. During archaeology month the Greenbank Mill 7 pm Archaeological Society of Delaware holds its annual meeting. This year we Jason Shellenhammer of RK&K. Topic to be announced. will be having a pot-luck luncheon at . Speakers are featured and there is an opportunity for a walking tour of edible wild plants. Archaeological Society of Delaware Annual Meeting Killens Pond State Park Nature Center Archaeology Month Events 5025 Killens Pond Road, Felton May 1: Museum’s Archaeology & History Festival 9:30 am Coffee and Mingling May 5 : Sussex Chapter Meeting 10:00 am Business Meeting & Awards Presentation May 7: Early Colonial Delaware Valley: An 11:00 am “Sea Level Rise & Archaeology” Archaeological and Historical Symposium Dr. Darrin Lowery, Smithsonian Institute May 11 : arCH 12:00 pm Pot-Luck Lunch ASD Picnic (Archaeology, Cultural & Heritage Field Days) 1:00 pm “The Archaeology of Killens Pond” May 13 : arCH John McCarthy, DE State Parks Archaeologist 2:00 pm "Revolutionary Battlefield Archaeology" - Wade Catts, arCH May 18 : Commonwealth Heritage Group May 18 : New Castle Chapter Meeting 3:00 pm “Wild Edibles” walk & talk (optional) May 21 : Annual Meeting Jeff Moore, State Parks May 28 : 6th Annual Maritime Festival, Lewes. Advance registration and $10/person fee May 31 : Kent County Chapter Meeting Lunch is Pot-Luck so please bring something for others to enjoy. The newest ASD Bulletin will be available. Iron Hill Museum Archaeology & History Festival. Be advised the park requires a $4.00 per car entry fee ($8.00 out of state). Iron Hill Museum, Newark. Noon ‘till 4pm Car pooling is suggested as it is a per car fee. This years theme is “tools of the trade” with demonstrations on making prehistoric stone tools and blacksmithing, among other crafts and trades. Maritime Festival Admission is $5.00 for persons over 4. Boyscouts in uniform get in for free. The Sussex and Maritime Chapters of ASD will have a table at the annual Maritime Festival in Lewes. Promotional materials are available and a Sussex Chapter Meeting demonstration of the ROV. The festival features maritime themed games Lewes Library, Lewes 7pm displays and activities. Anyone wishing to assist should contact Gary Dan Griffith will be presenting on the 2015 field results from the Avery’s Schmidt at [email protected]. Rest project. Kent County Chapter Meeting Early Colonial Delaware Valley Symposium Dover Public Library 6 pm New Castle Court House Musuem, New Castle 9am - 4pm John Bansch will speak on the Search for the Lost Corbit Tannery of Odessa. (see Page 2) arCh (Archaeology, Cultural & Heritage Field Days) WELCOME NEW MEMBERS The Green, Dover (8am - 2:30 each day) The Ceramics Revolution in Prehistory. Approximately 900 4th graders will learn about pottery. Volunteers are Pamela Boehr needed to assist working with the children. You need not commit to the Colin McGowan entire day - but we do ask for at least a couple hours on the day (or days!) Joyce Steinmetz that you can make it. Lunch will be provided for those who attend. John McCarthy of State Parks will lead the instruction. If you would like more information or would like to sign-up to help, contact John McCarthy at [email protected] or 302-739-9188 INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 2 The Early Colonial Delaware Valley Time Travelers An Archaeological and Historical Symposium Native American Life at Killens Pond May 7, 2016 State Park – Sat May 21 st 2:00 – 3:00 pm New Castle Court House Museum – Archaeology of Killens Pond New Castle, DE talk by John McCarthy

8:45 Craig Lukezic – DHCA State Park archaeologist John McCarthy, Introduction /Current Status of Research on Fort Casimir RPA, will summarize the physical evidence 9:00 Bill Liebekencht - Dovetail Cultural Resource Group of Native American habitation at Killens Wolf Pits in Colonial Delaware Pond State Park in an illustrated talk. 9:45 Bruce A. Bendler - University of Delaware The Battle of the Boundary – A Local Skirmish: the Levels and 3:00 – 4:30 pm – Adult Survival Series: Spring Wild Edible Plants the Penn-Calvert Dispute lead by Jeff Moore 10:30 John P. McCarthy - Delaware State Parks Is it safe to eat that berry? Explore forest paths and edges looking for Environment, Health, and the Depositional Processes of Privies spring's edible plants. We will hike and collect for one hour then return to in Colonial Philadelphia the Nature Center to prepare plants for eating. Advance registration and 11:15 to 1:00 Lunch a $10 fee, meet at the Nature Center. Call (302) 284 4299 to sign up. 1:00 Brian Crane – Versar Late 17th-Century Demographic and Settlement Patterns The next Time Traveler Basic Archaeology Training will Among Swedish Families in the Delaware Valley. be held Saturday June 18th in Dover at Rose Cottage (southwest corner 1:45 Daniel R. Griffith - Archaeological Society of Delaware of Reed and South State Streets). The training consists of about 2 and a Review of the 2015 Field Session at Avery’s Rest, Sussex County, half hours of lecture (there is a break!) and hands-on excavation of shovel Delaware tests. 2:30 Marshall Joseph Becker - Professor of Anthropology Emeritus West Chester University We will also perform a basic Phase I archaeology survey around this The Ethnogenesis of the "Munsee" in the Upper Delaware mid-19th century structure at the conclusion of the formal instruction. Valley: Some Members of Tribes from the East (Esopus, Waping Join us at 2:00 pm for the lectures or at 5:00 pm to assist with the testing and Wiechquaeskeck, etc.) Enter a Buffer Zone and Become an - we are sure to find something interesting! Tell your friends that this is Amalgamated Group the last chance to get a free ASD membership upon completing the 3:15 Artifact and Material Culture Discussions training (only for those not already ASD members!). All who complete the David Orr: Loft Ladder. training, however, will get the embroidered Time Traveler patch. Daniel R. Griffith: Various finds from Avery's Rest Brian Crane: Conch Shell from Mons Jones House Contact John McCarthy at Delaware State Parks for more information or John McCarthy: Things I Found in My Desk to register! [email protected] 4:00 Adjournment

Rose Cottage c. 1938 INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 3 Lewes Quarantine Station WildCat Manor

On March 12 an ASD/Time Travelers team conducted a general surface Excavations have resumed at Wildcat Manor. Over the winter a reconnaissance and metal detector survey of the late 19th -century quarantine substantial portion of the laboratory work was completed. A foundation station at State Park. has been found beneath the existing house with late 18 th century material in the fill on top of it. Nearer to the river, a warehouse has been found. Watch the web page for upcoming dates or contact Dawn at [email protected]

Dave Silveira working near the Surgeon’s House

Using high-precision GPS and GIS technology to analyze the 1926 aerial photography, we were able to mark the corners of over a dozen buildings across the sprawling 40-acre facility. Selected "hits" were ground-truthed in the field, but no excavated materials were removed from the site. We also Warehouse Foundation at Wildcat Manor identified what we believe to have been the cemetery, located 1000 feet inland of the former shoreline. The major result of the project was the Logo Contest recognition that the buildings were probably dismantled and salvaged rather than burned in place or bull-dozed in the 1930s. The debris signatures were light with no extensive deposits of nails and other metallic hardware as Over the last two months the ASD held a contest for a new logo design. usually seen when a building burns. There were six entries which were posted on the ASD webpage. Online voting produced approximately 50 votes with one design being the Additional investigations are planned in the future including ground-truthing overwhelming favorite. The logo committee then worked with the winner the cemetery to confirm its location, and having had a successful experience to produce the final designs. The winner was Carlos Maldonado who is deploying metal detector technology, its use is being considered at other a graphic designer currently working for the Delaware Division of State Parks sites. Historical and Cultural Affairs and also a professional freelancer. Variants of the design have been developed that provide flexibility in usage. Thanks to everyone who submitted and to those who voted.

GPS mapping of the Surgeon’s House foundation

Auburn Heights

We had nine new Time Travelers join our ranks at the April 10th training event at Auburn Heights in Yorklyn, far northern Kent County - almost in ! INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 4 Avery’s Rest Chapter News

During excavation of Avery's Rest well (Feature 176) last year. It seemed New Castle County Chapter the well was "closed" by filling it with brick right on top of the barrel in The New Castle County Chapter meets the third Wednesday of each the bottom of the well. There was also a cow skull (no mandible) thrown month. Meetings begin at 7pm and are held at Greenbank Mill at Price’s in for good measure. The images show us first encountering the brick Corner. deposit at 7 to 8 feet below the modern surface and a section showing the May 18: Jason Shellenhammer of RK&K will speak (topic to be brick concentration and cow skull. In the lab this winter, ASD crew announced) analyzed the brick by piecing them together and taking notes on the size Contact Joan Parsons for additional information [email protected] and composition of the bricks. The analysis showed that the bricks were from multiple firings and made from multiple "recipes" of clay, sand and Kent County Chapter pebbles. This analysis leads to two conclusions, 1) not all the bricks were The Kent County Chapter meets on the last Tuesday of every month. fired on-site and 2)most if not all the bricks were likely scavenged from Meetings start at 6:30 pm and are held at the Dover Public Library. elsewhere, perhaps ship ballast in Lewes or from demolished buildings in Field work at Wildcat has begun for the spring. the town? May 31: Search for the Lost Corbit Tannery by John Bansch June 28: We Dug Up All This Stuff! Now What? - Archaeological Curation and a View from Delaware, by Paul Nasca, Curator Delaware Department of Historical & Cultural Affairs July 26: Night at Kent Archaeology's Roundtable, by Delaware's Best Contact Steve Cox for additional information [email protected]

Sussex County Chapter The Sussex County Chapter meets the first Thursday of odd numbered months (except July). Meetings begin at 7:00 and are held at the Lewes Public Library. The Chapter will be participating at the Lewes Maritime Festival on May 28 th . May 5: Daniel R. Griffith will present The Avery's Rest Site - Sussex County, Delaware; Investigations by the Archaeological Society of Delaware For additional information about Sussex Chapter, contact Gary Schmidt at [email protected]. . If you would like to help with meeting or activity planning, email [email protected] with "ASD Sussex Chapter" in the Feature 176 subject line. We are excited about upcoming activities and we invite our members and the public to join us. Also, visit www.delawarearchaeology.org .

Maritime Chapter The Maritime chapter meets with Sussex County. Activities for the coming year include a field school in underwater archaeology. Schedule: 10 May - 13 May map Rev War longboat 14 May - 15 May mag and map Shipping Point 15 May - 16 May map Potomac to Tall Timbers 17 May - 19 May mag Tulip, U-1105, &c 23 May - 8 July map Dunmore area 9 July - 10 July field school class, pool 11 July - 15 July Dunmore 16 July - 17 July field school in-water 18 July - 29 July Dunmore 30 July? - 2 Sep Chesapeake Bay Anyone interested in participating should contact Dawn Cheshaek for more information [email protected] Feature 176 with brick fill exposed New From DelDot HAVE AN ITEM FOR INKSHERDS ? These reports are now available on the DelDot webpage Email it to [email protected] Phase IB Archaeological Survey Newark Regional Transportation Center, we will consider short travel items, artifact finds, calendar items, Newark, New Castle County, Delaware etc. just about anything of interest to our members Phase IB Archaeological Survey of the State Route 1 Widening Project in New Castle County, Delaware INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 5 Maryland Annual Field Session Excavations at the Great Neck Site River Farm Site, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (44VB0007) May 27 - June 6 Virginia Beach, Virginia 8 am - 4 pm Field Work Opportunity May 10 – 23, 2015

The 2016 Tyler Bastian Annual Field The Archaeological Society of Virginia, Chesapeake Bay Archaeological Session in Maryland Archaeology will be Consortium, Department of Historic Resources, Virginia Museum of held in Anne Arundel County this year, Natural History, and James Madison University have identified the Great at the "River Farm" Site located on the Neck site (44VB0007), Virginia Beach, Virginia, as a significant site Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in Lothian, threatened with destruction. The entire bluff above Back Bay has long Maryland. The Field Session is been recognized as a prehistoric locus fundamental in understanding the presented by the ASM (Archeological Middle and Late Woodland of Virginia. First excavated by avocationalists Society of Maryland), in cooperation with in the 60s and 70s, the site became a major focus of salvage efforts in the the Maryland Historical Trust. Anne 1980s by Virginia Research Center for Archaeology (now part of DHR) Arundel County's Cultural Resources when it was slated for residential development. Three lots remained intact Division, in cooperation with the until 2015 when plans called for their sale and development. The land- Recreation and Parks Department, will owner kindly acquiesced to allow study and DHR and ASV has excavated be hosting the field session. This is an several features in one lot. The Spring 2016 Field School will excavate exciting public-private partnership that features in the remaining lots. will allow citizens of the County to The field school meets requirements for the ASV/DHR/COVA explore the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Certification Program for excavation. Headquarters for the field school and experience this park's rich will be on-site at 1951 Thomas Bishop Lane, off Great Neck Road and confluence of natural, ecological and cultural resources. near tennis courts. Several motels are found in Virginia Beach with the land-owner’s Virginia Beach Resort and Conference Center nearby. First To reserve your spot, please email [email protected] Landing State Park is conveniently located with both camp sites and cabins see also the ASM webpage www.marylandarchaeology.org available. Participants are responsible for lodging and meals. Lunch will not be provided at the site but restaurants are ubiquitous. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring drinking water. Portajohns with Paleoindian Archaeology at the Snyder Site washstands will be available on site. The field school timing in early spring will avoid the influx of insects and the hot humid weather. Work will Complex begin at 8:30 am (meet on–site) and shut down by 4:30 pm. Excavation Phillipsburg, and survey may also be prone to the vagaries of the weather. Saturday, May-August, Saturday and Sunday, 9AM-4PM May 14, will be an open-house with site visitation. Come support archaeological research during the summer session of the Contact Mike Clem for more information at [email protected] 2016 archaeological field season at the Snyder Site Complex. Volunteers will participate in an ongoing program of field research designed to explore The Archaeological Society of Delaware Mission human settlement dating to approximately 13,000 years ago in the middle of the Delaware Valley. No experience required and tools are provided. • Educate our members and the public about archaeology • support professional archaeological investigations Contact: Jenn Rankin, [email protected] or 609-694-1933 • report on archaeological activity in Delaware and the surrounding region • promote interest and participation in archaeology and related FROM THE GROUND UP: activities ARCHAEOLOGY / ARTISANS / EVERYDAY LIFE MEMBERSHIP Museum of American Glass Membership in the Archaeological Society of Delaware is open to any Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center individual who is interested in our mission. Membership categories and Millville, New Jersey annual dues are: April 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016 $15.00 Individual Membership $10.00 Student/Junior Membership The Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Arts is hosting the first major $20.00 Family Membership exhibition of artifacts recovered from excavations along I-95 in Philadelphia. $30.00 Contributing Membership Numbering nearly a million thus far, the artifacts reveal over five thousand $30.00 Institution Membership years of history. Experience the archaeologists' excitement as you explore the $50.00 Sustaining Membership exhibition and discover evidence of early Native Americans, Dyottville Glass $300.00 Lifetime Membership Works, nineteenth-century glassworkers and potters, and everyday life in their communities. Visit our web page (http://www.delawarearchaeology.org ) for a membership application or to join using Paypal. Annual membership benefits include inclusion to all Archaeological Society of Delaware functions as well as a copy of the Bulletin and receipt of Inksherds. INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 6 Calendar For ticket holders the Amstel House and the Dutch House will May be open for tours. Delaware Archeology Month (See Page 1 & Page 2) 27 th - June 6 1st Iron Hill Museum”s Archaeology and History Festival Maryland Annual Field Session Iron Hill Museum, Newark, Delaware 12 - 4 pm. 28 th Jug Bay Visitor Center, Anne Arundel County, Md. 6 - 8 pm 5th The Avery’s Rest Site in Sussex County, Delaware. Daniel Stephanie Sperling will share her research into the impact climate Griffith. Sussex County Chapter Meeting. Lewes Library 7 pm change on archaeological resources along the Patuxent and tacross he County. th 5 Dover Days: Revealing the Ridgley Family (historic theater) th th Caesar Rodney High School Stage Crew & Thespians will present 28 6 Annual Maritime Festival, Zwaanendael Museum, Lewes. 4 historic theater vignettes. There will be 2 seating times - 6 p.m. 10 am - 3 pm. Sussex Chapter will exhibit at this event.

and 6:30 p.m. Meet at the John Bell House on The Green. Seating th is limited; call (302) 739-9194 for reservations. 29 River Farm Site (Maryland Annual Field Session) 12:30 - 1:15pm Former County Archaeologist Al Luckenbach will present the 6th "There's a Party in the House." Celebrate the 40th anniversary of latest discoveries from the Pig Point Ceremonial Complex and the Old State House restoration. Dress in 1970s clothes and party explore how it is related to the work at River Farm.

like its 1976. Event includes music, refreshments, dancing and th tours. Presented in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 30 Memorial Day. All museums of the State of Delaware will be passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The Old open: The Johnson Victrola Museum and The Old State House, State House, 25 The Green, Dover. 6-8 p.m. 302-744-5054. open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; the John Dickinson Plantation, New Castle Court House Museum and the Zwaanendael Museum, 6th - 8th Dover Days: The Green, Dover open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 302-736-7400.

Activities reflect Delaware's history and heritage as well as st contemporary times and include, but are not limited to, the parade, 31 Search for the Lost Corbit Tannery. John Bansch. Kent traditional Maypole Dancing with 250 plus schoolchildren, vintage County Chapter Meeting. Dover Library 6:30 pm. auto rides, colonial artisans' village, car show, historic re-enactment groups representing the Revolutionary War, WW II and the Civil June

War, children's activities, carnival, fireworks, exhibits and lectures th as well all-day entertainment and more. 11 Historic Trades Day: Rope Making. Newlin Grist Mill 10am - 3 pm th 7 Dover Days at the John Dickinson Plantation. Celebrate the 60th th anniversary of the John Dickinson Plantation as a museum! 11 General Howe’s Headquarters Sept 1777 by Walt Chiquoine. Activities include tours, Colonial games and hearth cooking Round Table of Northern Delaware. utilizing 18th-century recipes. John Dickinson Plantation, 340 Kitts Hale-Byrnes House 7:30 - 9:30 pm. $5 Hummock Road, Dover. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 302-739-3277. 18 th Public Archaeology Day, Newlin Grist Mill 10 am - 3 pm th 11 "1774-The Continental-Congress Era Begins." Lecture by th nd historic-site interpreter Bob Vander Decker. Part five of "The 19 - 23 Founding of America in One Year," a year-long series that CHATAUQUA: Making the First State Shine: 50 Years of examines important local and national events that led to the Historic Preservation. Zwaanendael Park, Lewes founding of the . New Castle Court House Museum, http://www.history.delaware.gov/preservation50 211 Delaware St., New Castle. 7 p.m. 302-323-4453. 24 th - 26 th 14 th Black Patriots of the American Revolution. American Dish Camp: A Celebration of the Past, Present and Future of Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware. Hale-Byrnes Ceramic Scholarship. Eastfield Village, New York..Registration House 7:30 - 9:30 pm. $5 form available at http://www.historiceastfield.org

th th 15 th Armchair Tour of Market Street, Wilmington by Josephine 28 6 Annual Maritime Festival, Zwaanandael Museum, Lewes Eccles. Hale-Byrnes House 4 - 6 pm. $5.00 The Sussex Chapter will be present.

18 th New Castle County Chapter meeting. Green Bank Mill, July Wilmington. Jason Shellenhammer will be speaking. 9th Historic Trades Day: Brick Making. Newlin Grist Mill 21 st Public Archaeology Day, Newlin Grist Mill 10 am - 3 pm 10am - 3 pm

Public Archaeology Days invite volunteers to assist our th professional archaeologists with site excavation, artifact screening 16 Ben Franklin, Scientist & Inventor by Mick Kochin & Bob and care. Public Archaeology Days currently center on the Miller's Stark. American Revolution Round Table of Northern House, which dates to 1739, and the Archive, formerly a Delaware. Hale-Byrnes House 7:30 - 9:30 pm. $5

mid-eighteenth century general store. No registration required. Free th to the public. All ages. 26 Night at Kent Archaeology’s Roundtable Dover Library 6 pm 21 st A Day in Old New Castle (ticketed) 10 am - 4 pm New Castle, Delaware INKSHERDS May 2016 Page 7 Science Rewrites History at the Home of been long considered James Monroe’s house, providing confirmation that the house now standing on the property dates to 1818, and not 1799 as President James Monroe previously thought. April 28, 2016 Story taken from www.highland.org “Dendrochronology showed the wood in the corner posts of the standing house was cut between the spring of 1815 and the spring of 1818,” said Dr. Michael Worthington, proprietor of Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory in Baltimore. This later structure is now believed to be a dwelling Monroe mentioned building in a September 6, 1818 letter to his son-in-law. The construction was likely part of a larger renovation and building campaign that Monroe conducted on his Albemarle and Loudoun County properties early in his first term as President, Bon-Harper added. Other artifacts found during the investigations included a significant quantity of bottle glass, ceramics, and fragments of home furnishings. Bon-Harper said the discovery of the new foundation sets the stage for continued research, noting additional archeology began at the site earlier this month. “Surprisingly, this home of the last of our Founding Presidents has so much that remains to be explored archaeologically. The positive identification of the current house as the 1818 building confirms the Dr. Sara Bon-Harper, Executive Director of James Monroe’s Highland interpretation of the archaeological remains as the house that Monroe and Foundation. (Photo by AP photographer Steve Helber) his family lived in beginning in November 1799,” she said. “Future interpretation on site will incorporate the new revised understanding of the guest house while we continue archaeological research of Monroe’s main Recent excavations at Highland—the historic, Charlottesville home of the house.” nation’s fifth president—are upending history. The archaeology, combined with tree-ring dating, shows that the newly discovered foundation, not the Beginning this year on James Monroe’s April 28 birthday, tours of the modest home still standing on the property, was the Monroe (1799) house. property will reflect the new interpretation of the site. Long-term plans for “We have made a stunning discovery. These exceptionally well-preserved the property include extensive excavation and eventually virtual reality remains are just beneath the ground surface in the front yard of the 1870s experiences of the house now being uncovered. wing attached to the standing Monroe-era house,” said Sara Bon-Harper, Discovery will be the essence of the new visitor experience, Bon-Harper executive director of James Monroe’s Highland. “This finding represents a said. “We believe our research efforts will reveal a greater understanding breakthrough in how the nation understands Monroe and how he lived.” of the historic resources related to Monroe’s home, and also Monroe’s Over his lifetime Monroe contributed a 50-year career in public service, legacy,” she added. “A long-term research project will be visible to visitors serving both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation in a variety of who will witness the unearthing of a new knowledge as part of the historic positions including his two-term presidency from 1817 to 1825. site visit.” “People always ask me about the importance of archaeology and how it makes a difference in today’s world,” said Mike Barber, state archaeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. “Highland provides a prime example of the power of the archaeological record to rewrite history. The evidence is often just below ground and following the best practices of stewardship and archaeology returns the best results, as these findings at Highland prove,” Barber added. The newly discovered foundation shows a free-standing and sizeable house. Bon-Harper said the findings include part of the base of a large chimney — preserved below the floor level, several sections of stone wall foundations, segments of thicker walls belonging to a stone cellar – now filled with brick rubble and charred planks, likely pointing to the destruction of the building by fire. “Monroe sold the core of his Highland property in early 1826, and it is likely that the house burned sometime in the mid-1800s. We have not yet found contemporary accounts of a fire at Highland, but later newspaper articles refer to the destruction of the former Monroe residence, and the subsequent Samantha Hunt working at Highland (photo by AP construction of the new Massey house in its place. The Massey structure was photographer Steve Helber) likely completed in the 1870s,” said Dr. Benjamin Ford, principal at Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC, in Charlottesville, the firm conducting research on the newly discovered house. The discovery of the new foundation is part of larger research efforts on the Dr. Sara Bon-Harper is the Daughter of ASD lifetime property, including dendrochronology, the dating of historic wood through member and Omwake award winner Peter Bon . tree rings. Dendrochronology was conducted on the modest building that has Archaeological Society of Delaware Officers

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