. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . ulated ground ; and the Hogg River isdivided into two parts at the front of the farm, one part flowing nearthe site. The ash beds have yielded the usual relicsAn engraving of a clay pipe, found upon Levi Taylorsfarm, is reproduced here from the Archaeological Re-port for 1897-8, page 19. Some carbonized corncobshave been found among the remains, and cornhillswere visible when t
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . ulated ground ; and the Hogg River isdivided into two parts at the front of the farm, one part flowing nearthe site. The ash beds have yielded the usual relicsAn engraving of a clay pipe, found upon Levi Taylorsfarm, is reproduced here from the Archaeological Re-port for 1897-8, page 19. Some carbonized corncobshave been found among the remains, and cornhillswere visible when the land was first put under culti-vation. An aggregate of more than a dozen irontomahawks have, at various times, been found by in his bonepit was discovered in the year 1879 on lot 9 (Levi Taylors)near the boundary line of Mr. Hutchinsons farm. It measured abouttwelve feet in diameter, and the deposit of human bones went to adepth of about six feet below the level of the surrounding two feet for the vacancy at the top of the pit, caused bysinkage, leaves the thickness of the deposit at about four feet. Thebonepit has been filled in and is now ploughed over. A short account. 24 of it appeared, at the time it was found, in the Orillia Packet of Sep-tember 5, 1879, and this was reprinted (though the source was notindicated) in the Toronto (Daily) Globe of September 16, in the sameyear. Mr. Hutchinson confirmed, in the presence of the writer, onJuly 5th, 1899, the various particulars cited in this printed pieces of copper had probably been sections from kettles obtainedfrom French traders. The shape of one seen by myself was trape-zoidal, its sides being about a foot long, and its parallel ends two andfour inches respectively. Two or three skulls taken from the pit hadround holes in them. We reproduce here the original descriptionexactly as it appeared in the newspapers above mentioned:— While logging on lot 9, concession 5, Tay
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