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Scientific Dating Project Reveals Construction Date of Historic Growden Mansion

Mercer Museum public presentation · January 28, 2026

Researchers from the Mercer Museum and Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory reported timber samples showing the main Grouden structures were felled in winter 1741–42 and that a nearby ruin contains timbers with a last counted ring of 1718; organizers called the findings "big news."

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