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Community:
Baccalieu
Trail Region
Conception
Bay & Trinity Bay
Population approx 46,000
Group
: Baccalieu Trail Heritage Foundation
Program
Coordinator/s: Baccalieu
Trail Heritage Foundation
Contact
Person: ????
Outline
of Activities involved
Under direction of lead Archaeologist assist with tasks
at the archaeological dig site.
Training
Volunteer must have at least one year combined training and
experience working at an Archaeological dig site and be able
to provide references to ability to this work under direction.
Information
Materials
Any materials such as books, video tapes etc. will be
made available through a management committee.
Dates
of project activities.
June - September 2003
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The
human occupation of Newfoundland and Labrador goes back
about 7000 years. In the Baccalieu Trail Region sites
dating to 4000 years ago have been discovered. European
settlement dates back to the early 1500's unofficially
and 1610 officially.
German
Westerwald Cup
1660-1700
Found in Cupids
There
are four large scale excavations: Dildo Island (Dorset
Eskimo and Recent Indian,) Anderson's Cove (Maritime
Archaic Indian,) Russell's Point (Beothuk Indians,)
and Cupids (First official English settlement in Canada
in 1610.)
In addition, the BTHC has been conducting an ongoing
program of archaeological survey work aimed at locating
and compiling an inventory of archaeological sites in
the region. To date this work has uncovered both a Dorset
Eskimo site and an 18th century European site at New
Harbour and a 17th / 18th century site a New Perlican.
The New Perlican site may be the Hefford Plantation
which is first mentioned in the Newfoundland census
of 1675. Future survey work is planned for a number
of other locations in the region including Hants Harbour,
Winterton, Old Perlican, Bay de Verde, Carbonear and
Harbour Grace
There are not enough resources available to operate any more that
one dig site a given year. Experienced volunteers would
enable work to proceed at a faster pace.
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