as the head of the James River Institute for Archaeology and part of the academic team that discovered the original site and remains of the historic Jamestown, the curator of the Jamestown Rediscovery collection, and other regional experts dispute such an early date. A limited 2005 excavation at the site dated nothing earlier than the second quarter of the 17th century. The site's artifacts also contained Dutch and Portuguese pottery fragments that point to later settlement and tobacco pipe pieces that are nearly the same as some from the neighboring colonial Province of Maryland that have been reliably dated to about 1650. Some discoveries suggest that the site is connected to Adam Thoroughgood's nearby tobacco plantation, which dates to about 1635. Contemporary discovery and development Before its identification as Henry Town the site had been called the Lake Joyce site or the Chesopean site. Its discovery in 1955 attracted attention but it was not until a reexamination of the evidence in light of the Samuel Argall letter that the site was identified by an archaeological team based in the Fort Eustis army base in Newport News. The relevance of the settlement to the early history of the English colony in Virginia has given impetus for the recreation of the site. At nearby Cape Henry, east of the Lynnhaven River, the First Landing Foundation will undertake a $700,000 project to build more than a dozen structures as well as an outdoor stage to conduct historical dramas. Notes References Mark St. John Erickson. "Scientists identify early English settlement: An archaeological study and colonial documents indicate that 'Henries Towne' has been found." Daily Press. 20 January 2007. Accessed 10 February 2007. See also History of Virginia Jamestown, Virginia Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia Populated places in colonial Virginia Populated places established in the 1600s Archaeological sites in Virginia Geography of Virginia Beach, Virginia History of Virginia Beach, Virginia 1600s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies 1955 archaeological discoveries