. 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 . he raised shorelines, with which the face of the hill is so com-pletely terraced. It appears that no large trees grew upon thispeak, at the foot of which a plentiful supply of good water couldbe obtained from the springs that issue here. Higher up the steephillside may be seen another strong beach, or raised shoreline,which in many other places is a water-bearing beach, althoug
. 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 . he raised shorelines, with which the face of the hill is so com-pletely terraced. It appears that no large trees grew upon thispeak, at the foot of which a plentiful supply of good water couldbe obtained from the springs that issue here. Higher up the steephillside may be seen another strong beach, or raised shoreline,which in many other places is a water-bearing beach, although justhere I did not observe any springs along it. On the east half of Lot12, on which Mr. Barr lives, he has found pottery fragments, etc.,and when the land was first cleared, cornhills were to be seen In 86 ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. considerable numbers. He has found altogether a dozen or moreiron tomahawks (of early French make;, chiefly on Lot 12 (on plateau near the Gloucester trail), but also part of the waydown the hill near the peak first mentioned. In September, 1900,a son of Mr. Barr found one of these axes with straight lines cutinto one of its sides, so as to make a rude design or pattern of an. Fig. 33. Iron Tomahawk, with design, probably cut by an kind (see figure). It turned up in a field near the old Glou-cester Road. On some of the maple trees here tapped by OjibwayIndians, in Mr. Barrs sugar bush, fifty years or more ago, the oldchannels for collecting the sap are still distinctly visible. 34. On lot 14, concession 6. Jas. Burnfield. Mr. Burnfieldhas found pottery fragments, etc., chiefly at some ponds on hisfarm, with iron tomahawks in abundance; and once ploughed upa brass kettle in the adjoining lot (the west half of 15). A bonepitis said to have been once found near this site, probably on thehigher ground south of the ponds at Mr. Barrs mill; but, although1 have been informed of it by different persons, I have hithertoheen unable to a
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