. 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 . g parties. 43. ZECHARIAH CASSELLMANS. Pottery fragments, pipes, stone axes, etc., indicating another smallvillage, have been found on lot 93, concession 2, Zechariah Cassellman,owner. An iron collar and small chain, very much rusted, were onceploughed up at the site. 44. WM. most southerly site on the left bank of the Wye, yet brought to our notice, is on lot 10, co
. 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 . g parties. 43. ZECHARIAH CASSELLMANS. Pottery fragments, pipes, stone axes, etc., indicating another smallvillage, have been found on lot 93, concession 2, Zechariah Cassellman,owner. An iron collar and small chain, very much rusted, were onceploughed up at the site. 44. WM. most southerly site on the left bank of the Wye, yet brought to our notice, is on lot 10, concession5, (Wm. Edwards, owner). About1886, Thos. Taylor, tenant of thisfarm at the time, while clearing newland, found a remarkable stone pipe,representing a crouching humanfigure. It was procured for themuseum from A. C. Osborne, and ispictured and described at page 32of Mr. Boyles Fifth ArchaeologicalReport. The village is located ondry elevated ground, the soil beinga light sand, but springs rise nearthe place and flow into the WyeRiver, toward which the land visited this site on Sep. 3, 1898,and saw evidence of Indian occupa-tion in the ashbeds and fragmentsof pottery, clamshells, and Fig. 17. 45. JOHN the foregoing, our notes on sites west of the Wye areexhausted. But across the river from the last named village, andremoved at a little distance, may be seen traces of another. This ison the east half of lot 87, concession 1, (John Leonard, owner). Theusual relics have been found, but we may note the finding of someiron tomahawks, indicating that the place was inhabited after Frenchtraders had entered the Huron country. 41 46. GABRIEL FRENCHS. A village site, with a bonepit of some importance, occurs in the2nd concession on the farm of Gabriel French. The bonepit was foundmore than twenty years ago. It was on lot 76, in Tiny township ; butthe village was on lot 75, in Flos,—just across the townline from thepit. Gabriel French, sr., st
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