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Archaeological Investigations of 20OK476: A Late Eighteenth Century Native American Site on Apple Island
Oakland County
Michigan
by
David S. Brose, Ph.D.
Imprints from the Past, 24 (2) 1-28 + xvii
June 2015
Archaeological Report # 25
Department of Anthropology
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Abstract
Archaeological investigations of Apple Island in Orchard Lake, Oakland County, Michigan, were casually begun in the early decades of the 20th century when the wners of the centrally located Campbell family, farm plowed up and then reinterred a Native American burial accompanied by a pewter bowl filled with white shell beads. 2000 and 2003 discontinuous shallow excavations conducted by local middle school students under the direction of Michael Stafford of the Cranbrook Institute of Science, yielded quantities of animal bone and a scattering of European trade goods. Stafford assigned these to a “Fur Trade” site but never fully reported on the site or its contents.
In 2008 excavations supported by the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society and the University of Detroit - Mercy, were conducted by West Bloomfield School science teachers, directed by David S. Brosc. Careful stratigraphic and geomorphological analyses documented the extent of the 18th century occupation and revealed a sequence of prehistoric occupational events, overlain by up to 20 centimeters of colluvial soils overlaying the aboriginal occupation surfaces, below which intact sub-surface features such as fire-reddened hearth areas were preserved intact.
With additional support from the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society, Imprints From The Past, LLC., and Western Michigan University, test excavations were conducted by Brose in 2013 along with detailed analyses of all recovered soils, faunal remains and artifacts. These studies demonstrate that the earliest scattered evidence for human occupation occurred during the Late Woodland Period, ca. AD 1000 - 1500. The major Native American occupation took place during the summer of 1763 by perhaps 3 sets of three or four related males. Statistical analyses of archaeological distributions along with historical documents strongly suggest that these were almost certainly a war party of Pottawatomi temporarily associated with Pontiac’s siege of Fort Detroit.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Background History 1
Previous Archaeological Investigations 3
Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy 7
Archaeology Recovered 11
Material Culture and Chronology 13
Interpretations 22
Conclusions 26
Maps and Illustrations Following page 28
Appendices
Appendix A: Recovered Artifacts and Environmental Remains
Appendix B: Table of Recovered Fauna and Fire-Cracked Rock
Appendix C: References Cited
Appendix D: Notes to the Manuscript
Appendix E: 2008 Archaeological Test Unit Descriptions
Introduction
The following report has been prepared for the Greater West Bloomfield Historical
Society (GWBHS), Orchard Lake, Michigan, as the conclusion to a multi-year
effort to understand the significance of known and potential historical
archaeological resources still preserved on Apple Island. While scattered recovery
of fragmented late prehistoric ceramics have been identified at several locations on
the island, the significant archaeological resources represent the traces of an
ephemeral mid-to late 18th century Native American occupation of a small area on
the northwestern shore of the island (Stafford 2003; Brose 2008), as well as a
possibly contemporary burial on an individual on the higher ground at the center of
the island. However, the vast bulk of the significant archaeological resources
recovered (and yet to be recovered) from the island represent a time-transgressive
palimsest of upper middle class Detroit merchant families who exploited the region
and island first as a bucolic farm in which the role of a Scots Laird could be
replicated, and subsequently as a caretaker-managed retreat heralding the aquatic
summer vacation culture of the early 20th century in the upper midwest (Wurst
2014).
Historical Background
Aboriginal Politics in the Late Colonial Era
The end of the French and Indian War (1754-1761) and the subsequent occupation
of the former French posts and forts led to a completely new inter-ethnic statuses
for the American Indian occupants of the Great Lakes region and the British
Colonial Ministry: a charged military and political relationship that continued
through 1796 transfer of hegemony to the new American republic. The events of
1763-1764 surrounding what Parkman called The Conspiracy of Pontiac, defined
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many of the political and military aspects of the expansion of the United States into
the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio after the Revolution; a revolution which
was in part occasioned by the Crown's imposition of taxes to pay for its military
campaigns during those previous decades.
Since the mid-19th century American historians such as Theodore Roosevelt,
Francis Parkman, and Howard Peckham, wrote in a romantic mode (White 1964;
Fischer 1977) that stressed the significance of individual American Indian leaders
of native revivals and the military resistances they usually inspired. Perhaps the
most familiar, but least well delimited of those Native leaders is the Ottawa
(Adawa) war chief, Pontiac. From the visions of the Delaware (Lenape) prophet,
Nemacollin, Pontiac forged a broad coalition of Algonquian-speaking tribes. In his
name, if not under his control, they rose against British occupation of the region
from the western Great Lakes to the Upper Mississippi and eastern Ohio River
Valleys.
Numerous journals, narratives and memoirs, some nearly contemporaneous with
the events, have described Pontiac's siege of the Fort at Detroit as the logistical and
psychological centerpiece of his military strategy. These accounts have been either
presented in terms of simple military chronicle (e.g. Francis Jennings' footnotes in
his history of the Iroquois Covenant Chain, or the journals of British Lieutenant
Jenkins) or as personal dramatic "Tragedies" (one by the Queen's Ranger Major
Robert Rodgers in 1769 and one by U. S. General Alexander Macomb in 1826) or
as heroic visual art (e.g. the Fredrick Remington 1894 painting, "The Siege of
Detroit"). Yet little is known about the composition, the equipment or the daily
subsistence of the multi-ethnic war parties which actually conducted these military
operations.
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Recent scholarship (e.g. Ferris 2012) suggests that among more thoroughly
acculturated late 17th century American Indian groups in New York and Ontario,
the nature of ethnic identity was markedly affected by warfare. But in the absence
of scientific archaeological investigation for this era and area, the nature of the
social interactions among Pontiac's followers or allies have either been ignored or
are assumed to be similar to those identified at other more well-studied but more
homogeneous coeval sites (Fitting 1970; Brose 1978; Halsey [Editor] 1999) or
drawn from less than coeval historical reports (Kinietz 1940; Greenman 1957;
Cleland 1992).
Previous Investigations of Apple Island
Early Records and Digging
Some time in the early 20th century, in the field across from their house in the
center of Apple Island, the Campbell family had unintentionally excavated and
then reburied a skeleton accompanied by a small pewter bowl filled with "white
beads." The beads may have been either "wampum" (drilled quahog shell) or glass,
but they were disbursed without recording their material or style at the time. The
bowl was donated to the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
In addition, there is a birch bark canoe in the collections of the Cranbrook Institute
of Science that was said to have been found buried in Orchard Lake. The
Cranbrook Institute’s collections also include several dugout canoes, most of which
are from Canada but one of which was said to have come from Apple Island. In
the GWBHS collections there is a dugout canoe which is not from the Orchard
Lake region but which was donated by the Cranbrook Institute of Science (note 5).
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The Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society brochure (GWBHS 2011) reports
that the original 1817 land surveyor. Samuel Carpenter, Jr., remarked that 5
excellent and high acres on Apple Island had been cultivated by the Indians and
that 20 or 30 apple trees were present. That brochure added, ”In 1928 a daughter of
Colin Campbell who purchased the island in 1856 recalled the following: “[On the
island] are still to be seen ridges where corn was planted, and in several places on
the higher land are circular hollows which were filled with shelled corn and all
covered with bark to keep out the rain. This corn was still in the hollows when my
father bought the island.”
Based on the donated pewter bowl at the Cranbrook Institute of Science, along
with these and references in the Campbell family oral history compiled by
Catherine Cangany suggesting that other Native American artifacts had been
excavated at Apple Island in the early 20"' century, and following discussion with
Mr. Charles Martinez of the Oakland County Historical Society in the 1960s, the
Michigan State Historic Preservation Office assigned the USNM designation
20OK52 to the entire island.
By the mid-twentieth century, after the abandonment of the island by the
Campbells, the West Bloomfield School District was designated the owner and
manager of Apple Island as a nature preserve. Annually, with Greater West
Bloomfield Historical Society volunteer docents, school groups and visitors tour
the island for a day. In the past, casual visitors occasionally collected historic
artifacts as souvenirs. Some of these materials were donated to the Historical
Society, as were various aboriginal artifacts including chipped stone points and
decorated, albeit fragmented, prehistoric pottery rimsherds, none of which were
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accompanied by information indicating where they had been obtained (Brose 2005:
personal correspondence with Richard Brown).
As part of this project, in 2013 and 2014 all aboriginal materials in the collections
of the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society known or believed to have come
from Apple Island were identified and analyzed. Among those formally excavated
there were 38 half-filled five-pound paper bags with unsystematic materials from a
1990 survey along the northeastern shore of Orchard Lake, where the school
supervisor noted, "We are digging due north along [the] lake until [we] hit
Commerce Road across from St. Mary's Schools." Although in this area the 1817
survey had noted the presence of Indian housing (probably Hinsdale's 1933
Reservation Village"), the collection from the surface of the right-of-way of Indian
Trail Road did not recover any evidence of their existence: The middle school
students from the West Bloomfield School District, picked up and duly recorded
numerous culturally unmodified pebbles, steel nuts, bolts, washers and machine
screws of various sizes, shards of bottle glass, plastic container fragments and
damaged automobile metalwork.
There was also a collection from areas to the south of Orchard Lake, along Old
Pontiac Trail (also noted as an "Indian Trail" on the 1817 map). Among the
artifacts collected from this area near where West Bloomfield School pontoon
boats docked were several bent and folded pieces of cut sheet brass as well as two
puddled lead fragments, perhaps from casting musket balls. There were also
numerous common bricks and fragments of porcelain plumbing fixtures, clearly
from the late 19th century if not more recent.
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2000 and 2003 Archaeological Excavations at site 20OK476
In 2000 and 2003 Dr. Michael Stafford with Matthew Miller as field supervisor
directed two differing groups of middle school students excavating portions of an
area located near the northwestern side of the island, facing the narrow shoreline
ridge across which lies Cass Lake, heading the Clinton River. The general location
of the site on a broad sloping ridge, approximately 3.5m above the present level of
Orchard Lake, was well known. On the general soils map of the island that Dr.
Stafford identified this general region of the island as a "Fur Trade Settlement"
which was designated archaeological site 20OK476 by the Michigan Historic
Preservation Office4.
In 2005, at the request of Richard Brown, then President of the Greater West
Bloomfield Historical Society, Dr. David Brose, Director of the Cranbrook Institute
of Science, met with representatives of the Historical Society and the West
Bloomfield School District, to discuss archaeological excavations which had taken
place on Apple Island in 2000 and 2003 under the auspices of Dr. Michael Stafford,
former Archaeologist and Director of Cranbrook Institute of Science. Because the
Institute remained responsible for the excavated materials and for a final report on
those excavations, in 2005 the excavated materials were obtained through Dr.
Stafford, then Director of the Milwaukee Public Museum, however, I never did
receive the documentation of the excavations (notes, maps, etc.) which was also
requested of Dr. Stafford.
As the West Bloomfield School District which owned Apple Island and the Greater
West Bloomfield Historical Society were interested in displaying and interpreting
the island's history, a 2005 Memoranda of Agreement regarding appropriate
archaeological responsibility in dealing with excavation, analysis, reporting and
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curation was prepared to cover a summer archaeology program on Apple Island for
West Bloomfield School science teachers. With funding provided by a grant from
the St. Francis Foundation of Michigan through the Greater West Bloomfield
Historical Society, a Madonna University course linking inquiry-based middle
school science teaching was offered as a summer 2008 class with archaeological
testing on the previously explored site on Apple Island. On 8 September all
archaeological, ecological, and geological materials recovered from Apple Island
during the 4-8 August 2008 class were transmitted to the Greater West Bloomfield
Historical Society and a technical report (Brose 2008) regarding the excavations
and their exact locations and contents, as well as the results of analyses and the
interpretation of geological/ecological, prehistoric and/or historical activities that
occurred was prepared.
Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy of the Site
2008 and 2013 Archaeological Excavations at 20OK476
Although no maps indicating the precise spatial distributions of Stafford's
excavation units or recovered cultural materials were available, the unit
designations on Stafford's unit screening bags appeared to match a zone shown on
an existing photograph showing a 1 meter wide trench crossing the site for a
distance approximating 5 or 6 meters. During the summer of 2008 the Madonna
field crew discovered a single iron pipe with a small survey flag at the southern
approach to this landform. Based on the recollections of Dr. Thadeus Gish, a
University of Detroit -Madonna College professor who had accompanied Stafford's
students during the earlier dig, this was identified as the E500N00 Datum from
which Stafford had laid out his excavation (location 10 on SKMBT Survey map).
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During the limited 2008 and 2013 seasons, directed by David Brose for Madonna
University and Western Michigan University, respectively, excavation units were
chosen both to avoid digging in areas which appeared to have been the location of
Stafford's 2003 trench and to avoid places where tree roots would have made clear
stratigraphic interpretation impossible. Along the western margin of the site one
2008 excavation unit was placed in an area where partially fallen branches and
upper trunk sections had protected the ground from previous disturbance and one
2013 excavation unit was placed at what appeared to be the northwestern edge of
the ridge lying just southwest of the late nineteenth century "Water Road" cut.
Soils on the site area are predominantly washed lenses of organically stained
reddish brown and dark grayish-brown dry Spinks loamy sands overlying medium
yellowish- brown Fox sandy loam (Agriculture Extension Service 1972).
All excavation units were excavated by shovel skimming from the existing ground
surface (called Level 0) down to an arbitrary depth of 20cm at which depth shaving
with a trowel edge carried the excavation down to the point where die greyish
brown (Munsell 10YR4/2-4/3) organic staining of the podzolic soil A horizon in
the loamy sands could be seen to change to a yellowish brown (10YR5/4) to light
yellowish brown (10YR6/4) colored Bl horizon, still in loamy sands. Soil color
value, chroma and hues throughout were described by comparison to the Munsell
Soil Color Charts. The unit floor at that depth was called Level 1, and it was drawn
onto a Floor Plan Form prepared by Imprints from the Past LLC Drawings and
photographs noted any natural or cultural features or concentrations which were
additionally described and recorded. All depths were measured from the Site
Datum which was the ground surface level at the N100E00 stake.
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After completing documentation of Floor 1 in each unit, the yellowish brown
(10YR5/4) to light yellowish brown (10YR6/4) loamy sands were trowelled down
until the floor encountered a dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4 -4/6) sandy loam,
representing the B2 soil horizon (seen as a new light colored somewhat coarser and
more compact Fox Sandy Loam floor approximately 10 cm below the lower zone
of humic staining). In Unit 08-01 a "'prospecting window" 25 cm wide was dug
down along the southern and eastern walls for an additional 25 cm in these sandy
loams without encountering any changes in soil color, composition or structure.
As Cremeens and Hart (1995:15) have stated, "Evaluation of individual soil
horizons and sequences of soil horizons in archaeological studies is critical to the
meaningful interpretation of archaeological context."
During the 2008 season, a field crew consisting of Middle School science teachers
from the West Bloomfield School District, directed by Dr. David Brose, assisted bv
Drs Joseph Hoffman and Thaddeus Gish, excavated 4.5 square meters of the site]
During the early summer of 2013, during the GWHBS Annual May Public Tour of
the Island an additional 2.5 square meters of the site were excavated by Dr. Brose
assisted by students from the Western Michigan University Anthropology
Department as part of an historical archaeology reconnaissance and testing
program conducted by Dr. LouAnn Wurst. In both of those years, the site was laid
out so that its 2008 and 2013 data could be coordinated with the apparent site
layout used by Dr. Stafford in 2000 and 2003. The 2008 site datum point was
designated as N100 while all excavated units lay south of that point (see note 6).
In addition to the analyses of the European and aboriginal artifacts recovered in the
2000 excavation, preliminary inspection of Stafford's field screening bags from his
2003 work by Dr. Beverly Smith of the University of Michigan-Flint revealed
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quantities of split and butchered animal bone, most appearing to represent deer,
although Smith noted that canids, mustelids, rodents, large and small birds, some
fish, amphibian or reptile bones, and quantities of turtle plastron and carapace were
also present. Subsequent analyses of both the 2000 and 2003 years’ collections
were undertaken by Dr. David Brose in 2012 and 2014. Amid the faunal remains
Brose identified fragmentary core-trimming and bifacial retouch flakes of
somewhat limey tan Dundee and grey Eastport chert, and several small smoothed
cord-marked grit-tempered pottery sherds.
As well, these same levels had yielded more recent historic artifacts including late
19th or early 20th century overall buttons and portions of mid-20th century steel
safety pins and fragments of blown, clear glass paper-topped milk bottles, cork-
stoppered soda water bottles with twist-wire rim-strips, and dark brown 3-piece -
molded panel medicine bottles. In addition, kaolin pipe stems and cast brass
buttons were present. All of these materials were listed as having been recovered
in the grayish-brown organically stained upper 20 cm of the site; there was
apparently no documentation (nor was there any recollection during subsequent
discussion with Matt Miller, Stafford's field supervisor) that excavation proceeded
deeper.
At the Apple Island site 20 OK 476 excavation and back-filling strategies prior to
2008 appear to have dug through weakly formed colluvial surface soils and then
terminated excavation at the surface of the strongly stained and relatively well-
compacted paleosols formed on the Fox clay loams. Many of the American Indian
and European-made trade artifacts recovered during the 2000 and 2003
excavations at Site 20OK476 had come from the upper, colluvial stratigraphic
contexts in which historic 19th to 20th century artifacts were also incorporated.
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Unfortunately, the detailed unit by unit associations of artifacts from such
excavation contexts can never be certain since some degree of their spatial
concentrations could reflect downs slope deposition as much as human deposition
or discard. However, recent, albeit limited excavations, with careful stratigraphic
control, have shown that it is possible to identify undisturbed stratigraphy in which
aboriginal cultural features can be discerned.
Additionally, detailed morphological and stylistic identification provided temporal
limits for many specific artifacts recovered from the earlier excavations. These
factors offer a firmer interpretation of what the site represented in terms of its
having been called part of a native village, a military outpost, a fur trade settlement
or a trailside mid-voyage meal stop. Equally important, it is possible to ascertain
within a few years when those potential events may have occurred.
Archaeological Recovery
Non-Artifactual Evidence
Fire-cracked rock and broken bone from white-tail deer represent the most
common archaeologically recovered materials from Site 20OK476 (by count,
weight and extent of spatial distribution) in the 2008 excavations and in the earlier
excavations undertaken by Stafford's student crews. Unfortunately, the nature of
site stratigraphic records for the earlier digging left it uncertain that the fire-
cracked rook or animal bone was deposited on the site at a single time. With that
possibility in mind, the 2013 excavations were designed to determine whether
sealed features, such as fire-pits or storage pits occurred below the levels at which
the 2000 and 2003 excavations were stopped.
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However, reanalysis of previously recovered materials and bag counts identified
significant unit to unit differences in the densities of fire-altered rock and faunal
remains suggesting that the application of several nearest-neighbor statistical tests
(c.f. Brose and Scarry 1972) reveals occupational spatial patterning from which
socially significant clustering may be reconstructed. In addition, the careful
attention to the morphological characteristics differentiating sequences of soil
horizons in archaeological studies is critical to the meaningful interpretation of
archaeological context.
It appears unlikely that radiocarbon dating of the animal bone could determine
with any degree of acceptable statistical significance the difference between
animals who lived in 1763 AD and animals who lived in AD 1856 when the
Campbell farm was established. And while there was no time in the past 10,000
years during which cooking methods and/ or the use of stone-boiling for sweat
bathing did not take place among most Great Lakes native groups, there is no
currently feasible method for determining the date of the thermal alterations to the
heat-shattered granitic cobbles.
The initial interpretation, based on partial analyses of artifacts and fauna recovered
in 2000 and 2003, referred to the site as an early 19th Century fur trading station
(Stafford 2002, 2003). Later, a preliminary site assessment based on limited re-
testing in 2008, identified distinct stratigraphic provenances and recovered
aboriginal ceramic fragments along with early European glass beads, suggesting
the possibility that the site had been occupied as early as the end of the 17th
century (Brose 2008). However, limited geo-archaeological excavation in 2013 and
detailed laboratory analyses of all recovered materials clearly reveal the existence
of three non-conforming stratigraphic deposits. These distinct geomorphologic
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deposits represent a stiff loamy sand glacial outwash whose upper 20 cm contained
a discontinuous scatter of Late Woodland ceramic and lithic fragments related to
the terminal prehistoric occupation of southeastern Michigan prior to incursions of
Upper Mississippian groups relocated from northern Ohio (Fitting 1964, 1970;
Brose 1978, 1996; Stothers and Abel 1991).
Overlying that loam, and occasionally intruding into it, a thick stratum of colluvial
silt loam yielded a relatively large and broad spectrum faunal assemblage, a small
hearth, small concentrations of fire-shattered and burned rock, and a few male-
related European materials all of whose periods of popularity occurred in the later
18th Century. Finally, the western portions of the site area contained several
informal deposits of broken window and bottle glass, shards of highly vitrified and
burned creamware and rim fragments of transfer-printed plates; all dated to the late
19th and early 20th century resort housing on the island (Brose 1967; Jordan and
Brose 1967; Wurst 2013).
Material Culture and Chronology
Aboriginal Artifacts The small fragments of relatively thin grit-tempered and shell-tempered smoothed
surface aboriginal ceramics recovered from the various excavations, and the very
few chipped stone artifact sections, are all too small and fragmented to display the
stylistic attributes useful for determining reliable chronological or ethnic
assignment. While grit-tempered clay vessels of a thickness similar to those
recovered at Apple Island were common throughout southern Michigan after the
7th century AD (Fitting 1964, 1975; Brose 1978; Mason 1980) the addition of
crushed and burned clamshell to the clay used to build up the pots occurs in
southwestern Michigan and southern Ohio in the 13th century but does not become
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common in southeastern Michigan until the accelerating relocation of native
populations from northern Ohio in the mid-17th century (Brose 1996, 2001;
Brashler et al. 2000; Stothers and Abel 1999).
Also, while the few pieces of local Dundee chert deliberately flaked by prehistoric
American Indians could have been left on the site at any time during the past
10,000 years, the fragment of a bifacial tool chipped of flint from north-central
Ohio or southwestern Ontario is most likely to have been carried to the site on
Apple Island as part of a widespread exchange system that swept across this region
in the four or five centuries between 300 BC and 200 AD. Alternatively, this
fragment may have been part of a tool used by some member of a group that was
part of the rapid 17th century ethnic population relocation that resulted from
indirect European pressures on aboriginal tribes farther east in New York and
Ontario.
It is worth noting that even these small potsherds and chipped flint fragments
certainly represent manufacture by American Indians well before the 18th century.
By that time the Great Lakes tribes, especially those in Michigan, had completely
abandoned their use of chipped stone tools and their manufacture of clay vessels
for the muskets, iron knives, axes, and fish hooks, and copper brass or iron
containers first brought into the region by unlicensed French and British traders in
the mid-17th century (Brose 1978,1983). But while these fragmentary aboriginal
artifacts suggest a date of occupation as recent as the early 17th century, all of the
silver, iron and copper/brass European artifacts from Apple Island are of styles
most commonly made for trade to the American Indians in the mid-18th century
(see note 7).
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European Artifacts European artifacts such as those found at 20OK476 on Apple Island were
represented by both French and British gunflints, iron tools and copper or brass
containers and reworked scrap (Appendix A). Similar artifacts have been found at
numerous contact period Native American sites from Manitoba to Georgia, and
from Quebec to Louisiana; sites all unquestionably dated between 1750 AD and
1800 AD, subsequent to the hundred year period during which native manufactures
also survived (see Anderson, 1992; 1994).
Glass Trade Beads
The most sensitive indicators of exactly when such sites were occupied at any
period between 1575 AD and 1875 AD are the glass beads made in Venice or
Amsterdam. When the pewter bowl-accompanied burial from the central portion of
Apple Island was disturbed and reinterred in the early 20th century not one of the
"hundreds" of beads reported to have been found therein was described in detail or
saved for analysis. Fortunately during the 2013 excavations, one large light blue
glass bead was recovered from a lens of wood ash and sand at the upper western
edge of Feature 1 in the southeast half of Test Unit 13-01. The feature, a small pit
lined with ash and charred cedar bark, originated at the interface of colluvial and
undisturbed silt loam, also yielded a cut and polished beveled mammal bone
"gaming piece”.
This blue hot-tumbled glass bead is what Stone (1974), following Kidd and Kidd
(1970), identified a Class 1, Series A, Type 1 variety n: a light blue, doughnut-
shaped, single-structure, hollow-cane made seed bead. Such beads were commonly
used by Dutch, French and British traders in North America from as early as 1670
through the end of the American Revolution, after which their popularity declined:
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They were among the most frequent at the Fletcher Site, a 1754-1765 Ottawa
cemetery (Mainfort 1979:283, 381) along the lower Saginaw River, and at the
pre-1781 occupation at Fort Michilimackinac (Stone 1974).
Miscellaneous Metal Artifacts
Site 20OK476 also yielded a range and variety of unidentifiable iron artifact
fragments and cut and native-reworked folded brass or copper sheets. These also
resemble the numerous specimens from Fletcher especially those Mainfort called
"plaque and bangle assemblies (1979:394, figure 64). The Fletcher Site also
yielded several "bulbar armed crosses" of silver and a few of silver-plated brass
(Mainfort 1979:392, figure 61 f,g), and 17 silver and pewter ball and cone "ear
bobs" (Mainfort 1979:396, figure 61e). These appear identical to those from Site
20OK476 and Mainfort noted (1979:396-7) that the silver pieces from the Fletcher
Site which carried identifiable touch-marks all had been made in the last third of
the 18th century or earlier. The excavations at Fort Michilimackinac (Stone 1974)
recovered examples of all of these artifact types, the great majority being attributed
to the British occupation which began in 1759. However, as has been argued
(Brose 1983), this may have been because there was far more industrial metal
manufacture in Britain than in France during the 18th century. To the extent that
the European artifacts provide a good estimate, Site 20OK476 was occupied some
time between 1754 and 1781 with the most likely period during the 1760s.
Gunflints
The differences among and between French and British gunflints and their lithic
source areas has been thoroughly researched (Witthoft 1966; Quimby 1966;
Cleland 1971; Hume 1976:220; White 1976; Hamilton 1976; Hamilton and Emory
1988). Good (1972:136-139) and Hamilton (1981) have documented large, single-
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event deposits from French or British occupations. Their thorough statistical
analyses, among the work of others (Hamilton 1968; Noel Hume 1976; Quimby
1966), support the assignment of the dark grey to black blade gunflints and gun-
spalls to British manufacture. And from well before the 1701 establishment of Fort
Pontchartrain at Detroit, the French were supplying their Indian military clients
with what must have seemed an unending supply of typically honey-colored blade
and spall gunflints for the fusils and muskets they had provided (Anderson 1991:
223; Birk 1991: 251; Brose 1972: 23; Brown 1992: 40; Hamilton 1981).
As Russell (1962:343, fn 38) reports, at the beginning of the 19th century in both
the American and British armies, the standard musket flint was between 1.2 and
1.5 inches long. 1.08 and 1.13 inches wide. .26 and .33 inches thick at the back
edge, and between . 39 and .55 inches along the bevel (the French had not then
invented the metric system). The standard flint for a rifled fusil was between .97
and 1.2 inches long, .79 and .88 inches wide,.20 and .29 inches thick at the back
edge, and between .41 and .71 inches along the bevel. The average flint for a pistol
was quite similar to that for a fusil except was even shorter along the bevel than a
musket flint, ranging from .30 to .42 inches.
If these rather exacting dimensions were carried forward from the late 18th
century, as were nearly all of the arms traded to the Indians (Russell 1962: 16-39,
240), then the assemblage of gunflints from site 20OK476 on Apple Island could
represent as many as 4 muskets and 2 rifled fusils. There do not appear to have
been any flints of a size that would have readily fit the lock of British or French or
American pistols (Russell 1962: 82-88, 198-232), suggesting that neither European
or American officer may have been present at the site. The crude reworking of one
of the smaller fusil flints of likely British origin also points to the lack of proximate
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replacements, a situation of scarcity and want indicative of something other than a
fur trade encampment given the very low prices and the large gun flint inventories
of European and most early American traders in the Old Northwest or the mid-
South (Russell 1962:240; Foster and Boehm 2013).
Kaolin Pipes
During their early archaeological work at Fort Michilimackinac Moreau Maxwell
and Lewis Binford (1961) devised a statistical analysis of the bore diameters of the
kaolin pipestems they excavated, measuring them with a series of drill-bits in
graduated 1/64 inch diameters (Binford 1962)8. The method has been applied to
many of the Colonial sites in the southeast (Noel-Hume 1976) and after years of
critical refinement can now be used to estimate occupation span, in addition to
modal chronological placement (Shott 2012). The calculated value of 4.686 for the
kaolin pipes recovered from the Apple Island site lie between the 4.77 mean
calculation for Brunswick Town, North Carolina, with a mid-point date of
occupation at 1752, and the 4.61 calculated mean value for Fort Ligonier,
Pennsylvania with a mid-point date of occupation at 1762 (Harrington 1954;
Binford 1962).
The large number of kaolin pipe-stems recovered from early British structural
areas at Fort Michilimackinac (Stone (1979:145-154, Tabic 38) had an average
value of 4.5 indicating a date just after 1759. Shott's refinements of officer earlier
formulae for the values at Site 20OK476 would indicate it represented a two or
three year span of kaolin pipe manufacture about that dale although the sample size
is much too small for statistical significance.
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These data strongly point to the period of acquisition by the occupants of the Apple
Island site around the end of the 1750s and, given the notorioas short lives of these
fragile clay pipes (Shott 2012), more likely in the early years of the 1760s.
Faunal Remains
Among the more plentiful items from archaeological excavations at site 20 OK 476
conducted under the direction of Dr. Michael Stafford, were faunal remans largely
consisting of split and/or fragmented mammal bone. While there had been no
formal analysis of these remains, discussions by participants in the 2000 and 2003
excavations and by education and exhibits staff of the Cranbrook Institute of
Science, led to the erroneous supposition that these consisted entirely of white-
tailed deer (Odocoileus virginiana).
After a series of discussions by Dr. Brose, representing the Greater West
Bloomfield Historical Society and the West Bloomfield School District, Dr.
Stafford, then working in Milwaukee agreed to have several dozens of plastic bags
of faunal material transferred from his former field supervisor's private garage to
the Institute. Dr. Brose made arrangements for their study by Dr. Beverly Smith,
University of Michigan-Flint. However, before this analysis could be undertaken
Dr. Stafford recalled them to the Institute to which he had returned in 2006. When
the Historical Society and Madonna University initiated the 2008 education and
archaeological program for the West Bloomfield School District, Dr. Brose
negotiated the return of these archaeological specimens to the Historical Society
(as curating organization for the schools) where they could be studied.
During the fall of 2014 the complete series of faunal materials recovered from
excavations in 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2013 were formally analyzed.
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These analyses of faunal remains from site 20 OK 476 have not been carried to the
level of minimal pairs of skeletal elements for each species identified. Nonetheless,
even with the differing levels of provenance control and field supervision, an
overall summation of materials collected from 2000 to 2013 is instructive
(Appendix B).
Deer represent approximately 85% of the fauna by overall count and weight of
bone fragments. However, much of this is due to the overall larger and more
readily recoverable size of many of the bone pieces, especially the few larger and
older specimens which were taken by the site's occupants. For White-tailed deer in
the Great Lakes region the usual breeding season runs from late September to early
December. Rutting begins with the shorter days of Fall and activity increases and
then ends within a relatively short period of time. The gestation period of the
typical white-tailed deer is about 7 months and in the lower Great Lakes fauns are
typically born in May or June (Burt 1957). Inspection of dental eruption and wear
is a long tested method for determining the age of deer. When jaw or tooth portions
of the skeleton arc present, the age of death can generally be determined with some
accuracy (Knight 2001; Schwartz 2011) bearing in mind that the younger the
animal the more narrowly the age can be specified.
While matching highly fragmented long bone to age and specific individual is
always provisional, it appears that by segmenting cranial fragments and using
epiphysis closure, between 7 and 10 deer are represented in the recovered 20 OK
476 remains. This assemblage is in turn composed of 4 to 6 fauns or very young
yearlings and only 3 or 4 adult deer. This composition, along with the cut-marked
condition of one adult skull pedicle (for antler removal) suggests the deer hunting
at the site occurred predominantly during the summer or early fall. Whenever they
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were taken, the nutrition to be derived from the deer appears to have been
extensively obtained: nearly every anatomical portion of the animals was
represented and nearly every long bone had been shattered or split, presumably for
marrow extraction. The lack of crazing or charring further suggests most venison
was prepared by boiling, rather than direct fire-roasting.
Other elements represented in the recovered faunal assemblage included at least 11
other mammals; three of which were large rodents (probably muskrat or beaver)
and five of which represented mid-sized canids (perhaps foxes the size of a
standard beagle). The remaining mammal bone which was identifiable only to the
level of family possibly represented mustelids. Several large tortoises or turtles
(including one relatively large snapping turtle) and a surprising number of frog
bones were also recovered. As many as three large birds, most likely geese but
possibly cranes or herons, and perhaps a similar number of small passerine birds
were represented by proximal limb and thoracic bones.
A number of rather small fish were represented by vertebrae and pharyngeal or gill
plates: at least 2 sets of pike or muskellunge jaw fragments were also present.
Unlike the widely distributed mammal bones, these bird reptile and fish remains
were encountered in only a small number of neighboring excavation units. They
may represent individually consumed foods rather than food shared among the
entire group.
In all, the fauna recovered from the site 20 OK 476 excavations indicates a scanty
and very inefficient system of hunting or selective trapping: the focus on very
young deer, small fish and a few waterfowl is quite unlike patterns of village or
economic extraction camp or ceremonial site provisioning by coeval Ojibwa,
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Adawa or Pottawatomi bands (Nassaney 2012; Cleland 1992; Stothers and Able
1999; Brose 1996: Brose, Cowan and Mainfort [Editors] 2002; Halsey [Editor]
1999; Zurel 2010).
Interpretations
Location and Nature of “Fur Trade” Sites
Through the comparative analysis of artifacts similar to those at other, well-dated
sites, it is now possible to determine approximately how often and for how long the
site was occupied by American Indians and approximately when this occurred.
It is most likely that the aboriginal ceramics and occasional local chert flakes found
in the general site area and encountered elsewhere on the higher portions of the
island (Wurst, personal communication 2014) represent one of many local
archaeological sites in the headwaters of the southeastern Michigan water systems
used casually and ephemerally by various American Indian groups between the
14th and 15th century (Fitting 1970; Brose, 1978,1996; Stothers and Abel 1999).
The site was then occupied again, possibly by very different peoples, some time in
the last half of the 18th century, and then again by related but possibly different
ethnic groups of Native Americans in the first half of the 19th century.
In the preliminary report of the 2008 excavations it appeared possible that
20OK476 was one of those extremely rare sites occupied between 1625 AD and
1725 AD when both aboriginal stone-working and ceramic manufacturing
technologies and European trade co-existed. However, carefully planned and
executed archaeological excavation in 2013, and professional analyses
documenting undisturbed deposits, have demonstrated the temporal and
stratigraphic disjunction separating the pre-European from the late eighteenth
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century aboriginal occupations of Apple Island. The chipped stone work and the
construction and use of aboriginally produced earthenware ceramics, predates the
introduction of European artifacts by several centuries, and it is quite possible there
is little but general linguistic affinity between those sequential aboriginal groups.
Based largely a preliminary assessment of artifacts recovered from his 2000 test
excavations, Stafford (2002) referred to the 20OK476 site as an early 19th century
"Fur Trade Period" site (Stafford 2002). He went on to note,
“… the small settlement on Orchard Lake's Apple Island is one of only a
handful of smaller Fur Trade Period sites known from the southern portion
of our state. As such, it represents an especially valuable locale to help
elucidate the cultural dynamics of one of our most dramatic periods of
change in Michigan's human past.”
Unfortunately, over the next several years, Stafford's assignment of the site to a
"Fur Trade Period" has been taken as identifying it as a "fur trading" site. There is,
of course, a considerable difference between a location at which such inter-cultural
exchange took place, and some other type of location occupied at some time in the
two and a half centuries from 1625 to 1875 during which Europeans and then
Americans engaged in trade with the Native American Indians.
Stafford's more extensive 2003 excavations recovered very few more of the
European- made artifacts that had led him to those initial conclusions but they did
result in the recovery of a larger sample of faunal remains. While those remains
were not at the time analyzed, the assumption that they represented only deer
seemed to affirm the presumption of a single, time-limited occupation related to
inter-cultural exchange. Recent, more thorough analyses of all of the faunal
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remains from site 20OK476 (2000, 2003, 2008 and 2013) have revealed the time-
transgressive and non-economic nature of that occupation.
At the end of the 18th century Hugh Heyward, an Indian Trader operating out of
Montreal, composed a number of brief journal entries while crossing the river and
lake systems of southeastern Michigan to trade with local groups (Guthe 1940).
His journals describe a number of the "in country" campsites at which he stopped,
usually for a single night. Those sites would be nearly invisible to today's
archaeological methods however important they may have been in the strategy of
mobile exchange in a frequently hostile landscape. And their ephemeral
archaeological signature can be nothing like what we see in the diverse recovery of
a plethora of Native and Euro/American artifacts recovered from excavation of
numerous securely dated archaeological village sites in which European/Native
American exchange is known to have taken place (Brose 1978, Mason 1981).
Nearly all of the very few European artifacts which the Apple Island site 20OK476
has yielded represent military equipment or male ornaments typical of the later
decades of the 18th century. (see Stone1974 for a detailed review of exactly the
coeval Native Americans at Fort Michilimackinac would have had in the way of
military or ornamental trade goods). These are accompanied with summer and
autumn-killed terrestrial fauna among which deer predominate but which also
includes canids and mustelids of several sizes and species along with a number of
large waterfowl but very few fish or reptiles. The deer bone showed a diversity of
highly splintered body parts of both young and relatively old individuals. This
unusual assemblage bears little resemblance to usual assemblages resulting from
purposeful hunting indicated for even small village sites during the historic period
(e.g. Jackson and Scott 1995). And it is certainly more diverse and spans much
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broader seasonal indicators unlikely to have resulted from the types of ephemeral
18th or 19th century Native American site occupied for the purposes of trade with
a European or American... or for the hit-and-run tactics typical of male-centered
war-parties of those times.
The near absence of fish remains and the great differences in the sizes of those
which are present strongly suggests that despite its location in the middle of one of
southeastern Michigan’s most productive lakes, the criteria for site location had
nothing to do with maximizing the subsistence economy, but that a variety of
relatively unsystematic subsistence activities were performed at the site during the
several months it was occupied (Colaninno 2011; Lyman, R. Lee 1987; Reitz et al.
2008). Thus, the Apple Island site 20OK476 is almost certainly not a village site
and it is most unlikely to be a European fur-trade site.
There is added significance to the location of this eighteenth century site on an
island in Orchard Lake, in distinction to the isthmus where the 1817 Land Survey
identified a cluster of “Indian Hutts" between Orchard and Cass Lake (the latter
heading the Clinton River system), or on the narrow short portage over the ridge
separating Orchard and Pine Lakes (the latter heading a branch of the Rouge
River). This choice of site locations on Apple Island represented a decision based
less on economic or logistic considerations than on tactical and strategic ones.
Review of current anthropological studies of warfare among tribal societies
(Arkush and Allen 2007) and the many historical treatments of the centuries of
American Indian military resistance to the westward movement of European
missionaries, traders and colonists (Parkman 1878; Peckham 1947; Van Every
1966; Cleland 2092; Brose 1983, 2002; Ferris 2008) consistently reveal the
importance of close and unobserved attack by relatively small Native
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American war parties. The 1,000 meters of open water were what now would be
called a clear field of fire. That would have been impossible to create along the
densely wooded lakeshore typical of southeastern Michigan visited by British
Major Rogers, sent to relieve Fort Detroit at the time (Rogers 1765): woodlands
which Alexis DeToqueville described as visually impenetrable more than a
generation later (Beaumont 1835) .
Conclusions
Spatial Analyses
Over a decade of archaeological excavation (2000 - 2013) at Site 20 OK 476,
coupled with critical analyses of recovered artifacts and faunal remains, has
yielded information assigning the most probable period of its occupation to a few
summer months in the later half of the 18th century. Careful stratigraphic controls
demonstrated the potential for intact cultural features representing cooking areas
with differing densities of faunal remains, potentially reflecting short-term spacing
of discrete social segments. Controlled excavation of the undisturbed portions of
Site 20 OK 476, both interstitial and underlying earlier excavations, reveal
additional differing distributions of fire-altered rock and chaired animal bones,
representing several discrete areas of cooking (Karr 2015; Karr and Outram 2012).
Application of a Poisson Distribution test to the differing counts of fauna and
artifacts considered as point data within the excavated quadrants (Stafford from
2000 to 2003, and Brose in 2008 and 2013), documented the non-random spatial
patterning of the two sets of archaeological specimens (Silk 1979: 95-130) and the
evidence of cooking hearths. This non-random pattern paralleled the concentrated
distribution of European trade goods of military function across this discrete
campsite. Further nearest-neighbor statistical analysis(Hodder and Orton 1974:
30-51, 198-224) revealed the few significant correlations between areas of faunal
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remains which Karr (2015) considered representative of quality meat consumption
and male-related military artifacts. These weak archaeological concentrations offer
interesting perspectives on the social nature of the site’s short occupation. The
variability in initial recording limited the accuracy from which these quantitative
data are derived limits the confidence intervals while elevating their potential
statistical significance. These offer some insight into potential status
differentiation among participants in this native resistance, information lacking
from current historical expositions. Given these caveats, it is highly probable that
the Native American Indians who occupied Apple Island Site 20 OK 476 were a
war party of from ten to twelve male relatives in three or four family groups, one
of which was headed by a possibly senior leader but not one significantly more
well-equipped or decorated. The group appears to have spent most of one summer
on Apple Island with little activity devoted to their own subsistence or to the
collection of peltry for the fur trade.
Documenting Ethnic Identity
While it is reasonably clear the site was occupied some time in the 1760s, and
quite probably during the summer of 1763 during which the siege of Fort Detroit
took place, the ethnic identity of its occupants is much less certain. The Greater
West Bloomfield Historical Society brochure reported that in the 1830s the Ottawa
Chief Okemos claimed to have been born 60 or so years earlier on an island in a
lake near Pontiac. However, nothing yet recovered archaeologically (intentionally
or accidently) indicates the island held a village site with women or children,
although by 1817 such a site was recorded on the lakeshore to the northeast.
Mainfort (1979:287) cited late 18th century journals noting the presence of Ottawa
and Chippewa warriors from the Saginaw River and Bay in Pontiac's siege of
Detroit (Dowd 2002; Gilbert 1955), while Parkman (1878) discussed the presence
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of Pottawatomi warriors from villages at the mouths of the Rouge and Raisin rivers
who camped upstream during that summer of 1763.
But although archaeology alone cannot give us the native or tribal name or names
by which the site's occupants identified themselves, such designations appear to
have been relatively fluid throughout the 18th century Great Lakes region (see
note). This is nowhere more apparent than in the various ethnic labels
cartographers from the 17th to 19th centuries splashed on lake and river margins
and on the little visited upland regions that separated those shores (Brose 1994,
2001). It is most likely that the group came from one of the several Pottawatomi
bands that since early in the century had occupied villages near the mouths of the
Huron and St. Clair rivers along the western shores of Lakes St. Clair and Erie and
the Detroit River.
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20 OK 476 ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE 1. UNIVERSITY DETROIT - MERCY 2013 TEACHERS AND NEWSPAPER REPORTERS TESTING THE “PONTIAC’S MOUND” LOCATION ON APPLE ISLAND 2008 SEASON
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FIGURE 2 WEST BLOOMFIELD TEACHERS AND THAD GISH SETTING 2008 TEST UNITS AT SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 3 2008 WEST BLOOMFIELD TEACHERS AND THADEUS GISH, UNIVERSITY DETROIT - MERCY, SCREENING LEVEL 1 AT SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 4 SUB-COLLUVIAL FLOOR TEST UNIT N85W02 IN SITE 20OK476 (FORMER SITE 20 OK 52) IN 2008 EXCAVATIONS
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FIGURE 5 CROSS-SECTION OF SUB-FLOOR FIRE HEARTH, FEATURE 1, TEST UNIT N85W02 IN SITE 20OK476 (FORMER SITE 20 OK 52) 2008 EXCAVATIONS
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FIGURE 6 2008 EXPOSURE OF UPPER COLLUVIAL SOILS OVER OCCUPATIONAL FLOOR (LEVEL 2) AT SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 7 ABORIGINAL CORD-MARKED GRIT-TEMPERED CERAMIC SHERDS FROM 20000 AND 2008 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 8 ABORIGINALLY WORKED BI-POINTED MAMMAL BONE PUNCH FROM 2013 EXCAVATIONS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 9 KAOLIN PIPE STEMS FROM 2003 AND 2008 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER SOIL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 10 ENGLISH AND FRENCE GUNFLINTS FROM FROM 2000 AND 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN AND BELOW UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 11TOP: 1 ENGLISH AND FRENCE SMALL FUSIL OR PISTOL GUNFLINTS FROM FROM 2000 AND 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
BELOW: ENGLISH GUNFLINT RE-WORKED INTO ABORIGINAL BURINATED DRILL
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FIGURE 12 ABORIGINALLY REWORKED SCRAP BRASS (FROM EUROPEAN KETTLE SIDEWALL) FROM 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 13 19TH CENTURY NAIL, STAPLE, AND CROCKERY FROM 2000/2003 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 14 FRAGMENTS OF IRON KETTLES AND IRON BUTTON-HOOK FROM UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 15 TOP: ABORIGINALLY FLATTENED AND DRILLED 50 CAL MUSKET BALL.
BOTTOM: BLUE GLASS BEAD FROM 2013 EXCAVATION OF LEVEL BENEATH COLLUVIAL SOILS AT SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 17 BULBAR ARM SILVER CROSS FROM 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 18 SILVER BALL-AND-CONE EAR-BOBS WITH WIRE LOOP FROM 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE 19 IRON FRENCH MILITARY UNIFORM SLEEVE BUTTON FROM 2003 EXCAVATIONS IN UPPER COLLUVIAL LEVELS ACROSS SITE 20 OK 476
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FIGURE19 FRENCH MAP OF FORT DETROIT IN 1740S, COURTESY DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY BURTON HISTORICAL COLLECTION.
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FIGURE 20 “THE SIEGE OF FORT DETROIT 1763” BY FREDRICK REMMINGTON. COURTESY GOOGLE IMAGES
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FIGURE 20 PONTIAC SURRENDERING TO COLONEL BOUQUET IN 1764. IMAGE REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.
APPENDIX A RECOVERED ARTIFACTS: SITE 20OK476 ON APPLE ISLAND
2000 EXCAVATION RECOVERED ARTIFACTS
Kaolin Pipe Bowl
TU 40 - 40 cm Bowl fragment side and edge. No stem area preserved.
Kaolin Pipe Stems (measurements in mm)
Location Length External diameter Internal diameter
T 30.2 66.2 7.85 1.75
T40.2 48.2 7.3 1.65
T16 16.3 5.64 1.70
T24.2 20.6 6.3 / 7.0 1.36
T24.2 20.0 6.25 / 6.9 1.35
Means 34.26 6.84 1.852
Cut and folded sheet brass
T19 Quadrilateral sheet 27.5 mm x 12.5 mm x .65mm thick
T20 Quadrilateral sheet 24.5 x 17.9 mm x .65 mm thick
T ? Flat angular “C”-shaped 19.5 long, 15.5 wide with 8 x 8 mm notch; 1.25 mm thick
T40 Flange tab with 1 hole for bale handle and 2 lower holes for pail sidewall attachment. 39.4 x 22.5 mm high x 1.2 mm thick
Iron artifacts
T31.2 Rusty tapered cup handle with rolled edges. 35mm long x 20.0 - 23.5 mm wide x 2,5 mm thick
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T31.2Fender washer 12.2 mm internal dia x 24 mm external diameter x 1 mm thick
T8.2 Iron boot-hook with circular loop handle.
TU27 -4 cm. Wire-drawn, machine-headed 10d nail.
TU45-36cm. Wire U-shaped staple. 35mm long x 20cm wide.
Lead specimens
T17.2 Partially flattened musket ball; 38 mm 5 mm x 3 mm
Pewter Ornaments
T28.2 Ball and Cone Ear Ornament. Cone 17.5 mm high, solid base 3.7 mm di-ameter, top with soldered loop 1.25 mm diameter. Ball 5.0 mm diameter with small soldered loop at base 0.5 mm diameter. Ball 5.0 mm diameter. Wire loop 12 mm length
T29.2 Ball and Cone Ear Ornament. Cone 17.0 mm high, solid base 5.0 mm di-ameter, top with soldered loop 1.25 mm diameter. Ball 5.0 mm diameter with small soldered loop at base 0.5 mm diameter. No wire loop.
Silver [Alloy] Ornament
T27.2 Small “bulbar” equal-arm crucifix. 18.7 mm high, 22.0 overall width, 0.35 mm thick. Each element of arm 8.5 mm maximum width near nexus. Upper por-tion of top arm perforated with 3.5 mm hole traversed by a small flattened ring of the same material, No marks. Not sterling.
Gun Flints
T29.2 Pale honey-colored. 26mm x 20mm x 9mm. Heavily battered..
T29.2 Honey-colored. 24mm 19mm x 8mm. Split and heavily used and re-sharpened.
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T39.2 Dark honey-colored. 32mm x 34mm x 7mm. Split, broken and reworked with helical striations from possible use as borer.
176.TP2 Light grey. 19mm x 25mm x 8mm. Minimal retouch or use.
176.TP2 Very dark grey. 20.5mm x 25.5mm x 6.2mm. No evidence of use.
T45.1 Light Honey-colored. 27mm x 24mm x 9.3mm. Unused.
T49.2 Black. 28mm x 31mm x 12mm. Unused.
Aboriginal artifacts
TU 31- 40cm. 1 burnt decortication flake. Dundee Chert.
TU 40 - 40cm 1 small smoothed bodysherd. Ca. 11mm x 32mm x 6mm thick. Very sparse crushed granitic grit, compact dark core, dark interior, pale salmon exterior.
No Provenance. 2 smoothed over cord-marked bodysherds. Ca. 12mm x 10 mm x 6.8 mm thick. Sparse crushed limestone temper, friable dark core, buff - salmon exterior.
No provenance. 1 Secondary decortication flake, mottled brownish-grey chert resembling Lockport formation.
Euro/American Ceramics
TU 6 - 41cm. Stoneware body sherd, crock. Ca. 15mm x 23.4mm x 11mm thick. Exterior grey salt-glaze, Interior Albany slip. (popularity 1650 - 1920)
TU 42. Creamware blue-on-white edge sherd Ca. 22mm x 26mm x7mm thick. (popularity 1750 - 1840).
2003 EXCAVATION RECOVERED ARTIFACTS
Several thin (.7mm) fragments of knife-cut sheet brass:
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2008 EXCAVATION RECOVERED ARTIFACTS (See Appendix E for Details)
Upon re-inspection in 2013 it is possible that the artifact recovered from Unit 08-03 Level 2 which had been identified as a grey and black flint biface section may have been a mid-section from a shattered fusil gunflint.
Also, surface recovery from bioturbated and tree-disturbed surface sediments in the region of the 2003 datum stake [E500N500] included fragmented faunal re-mains, chert debitage and grit/crushed shell-tempered Woodland sherds. Fire-cracked rock was also present as was a fragment of what appeared to be the bone side-plate from a 4-inch clasp knife. From the upper sediments in the Northwest corner of unit 08-04, grid coordinate: N86.5W1.5; scraps of sheet copper, and a single No 8 iron fishhook with corroded shank (and no eye) were recovered. The latter two artifacts may have been in use at any time from the early 18th century through the late twentieth century.
2013 EXCAVATION RECOVERED ARTIFACTS
TU 13-01 Feature 1. One cut and polished deer phalange “gaming piece”
TU 13-01 Feature 1. A large light blue hot-tumbled cane-manufactured glass bead.
TU 13-01 Level 2 - 25cm. Drilled and flattened lead musket ball, originally about 55-60 caliber.
TU 31-01. Linear northeast trench edge along “sunken water road” across from early 1900s Deerdorf Cabin foundations. 46 fragments of milk and medicine 3-mold and pressed bottle glass typical of the late 19th century (Brose, 1967, Rupp and Brose 1967).
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Table 1Provenance comment
deer other mammal birds herp fish FCR artifactunit # grid depth
cmlong bone head trunk other water other #
20031 43 12 4 large turtle3 17 1 1 8 SW corner: young deer & large bird5 40 5 2 28 SW quarter: shed antler- skull6 41 3 17 salt glazed crock frag
7 495N499E 0-20 2 small phalanges
8 40 14 8 small bag charcoal9 20 6 2 1 32 2 pre-molars
10 4 211 2 2
12 500N489E 20 2 x x fragments/dark green pebble bottle glass and 20 cm iron staple
14 40 3 18 young & mature deer15 35 48 unidentified mammal fragments16 40 2 7 6 3 frog pelvis and limb17 12 1 3 24 large adult & young
17b 496N498E 5 1 3“small mammal” x articulated fish bone mass; mammal
bones smashed19 42 3 32 two turtle carapace22 44 18 923 624 8 125 41 5 2826 38 5 two mussel shells27 30 2 14 one nail: W/D mach head 10d29 35 1 dog jaw30 35 8 1 46 jaw with pre-molar
30b 495N497E 20 5 3 turtle31 40 3 3 one turtle plastron, burned Dundee LS flake
34 30 48 16 17
36 40 8 2 deer very young, swan or goose37 40 50 5
38 498N496E 3 4 x 2 6 x other charred mammal / gill plates / burnt brass button with loop shank39 6 1 20
39 24 splintered, unburned40 40 40 27 18 turtle carapace clay pipe bowl frag, 1 GT 6mm body sherd
40b 496N446E 20 2 2 9 7 124 rodent mandible and broken femora41 39 142 6 6 fragment blue on white creamware (1750 ?)
43 25 4 1 144 43 2 1
44b 5 6745 36 63 4 1 wire staple
28a 64 3 turtle plastrons
2000
ffffff1 502N499 20 3 14 grams very small olecranon2 504N499 9 373 496N49x 20 2 3 3 1 kaolin pipe stem (ID .05 mm; XD 6.1 mm; L 42.3 mm)
4 500N496 2 2 31 big carapace fragments5 500N497 4 155 very large deer
5b 500N497 20-40 5 3 45 split molars6 497N500 7 16 3 222
6b 497N500 6 227 very narrow ribs7 495N495 20 5 12 small deer phalanges, pike[?] gill plate8 493N500 8 35 tiny fragments9 500N493 6 1 46 jaw fragment
10 497N501 3 14611 496N500 20 9 39
12 500N489E x x 27 2numerous split fragments of deer; dark green pebbled bottle glass frag; 20 cm iron staple
13 500N491 7 11.2 3 very young deer; g-t smooth sherds; safety pin head
13 20 1 7.5
14 497N499.5 20 1 1
3 edges turtle plastron
129
15 498N501 9 32 3 canine jaw fragments; small mammal 16
17a17 496N498 11 11 340 deer shoulder; very small mammal BAG #117b 498N500.5 4 745 split lb
BAG #217c 496N498 14 539 all long bones split BAG #3 18 500N494 4 split
19 495N100 2 1 21 half unit20 500N495 20 1 1 mature phalange; brass button w welded shank 21 30 38 1 12922 497N498 3 large 8 plastron 16223 490N497 14 13 313 shattered long bone; large gill plates
23b 496N497 20 3 4 very small deer; large bird femur and ribs
23c 7 3 2 13 230big deer split long bones, worn molars; 2 different turtle carapace; fish spines/vertebrae
24 497N497 3 8 30225 500N490 20 1 small antler tip26 500N495 1 crushed vertebrae2728 501N493 4 23
unit # grid depth cm long bone head trunk other water other FCR
grams
29 ? 35 5 2 dog + 1 size check these
29b 5 2 dog 96
29 495N498 1 6 7 215 split long bone; turtle30 6 3 deer: very young ephyseal ends; waterfowl long bones
30b 8 2 5 4 split lb, cerv vert, worn teeth; smashed carap
31 499N496 1 1 dog 1 3532 499N495 20 5 3 2 80 neck, molars, premolars unworn33 488N498 37 74 burned white calcined 34 489N498 2 24.535 494N 499 1 split 8836 494N500 3 large bird split longbones37 1 3 10 102
38 498N496 3 1 16 1 +2 size 1 burned cast brass button with loop
shank39 498N499.5 4 1 3 1 217 very immature deer - 4 molars unworn40 496N446E 20 1 1 immature skull
40b 496N496 7 45 turtle plastron
2008 (see Appendix E for details)
20132013 -1 15-35 4 57 duck?2013-2 26-45 3 1 shaved phalange 234 2 drilled flattened lead ball2013-2 Feature 1 45-60 6 - 1 blue glass bead2013-2 west 1/3 30-70 4 34 19th century pressed and blown glass and metal. Many concrete and brick fragments
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1. Without question, the most thorough historical review of the siege of Detroit and the inter-tribal politics of Pontiac and his often fractious allies is found in Edmunds' (1978) history of the Michigan Pottawatomi tribe.
2. Vegetation across the site area in 2008 appeared to consist of secondary partial-ly undisturbed growth, with a few large (50 meter high and 85 centimeters in di-ameter at breast height) Sugar Maple trees which are dying. Other large trees consist of a few widely dispersed White Oak trees and several dozen 30 to 40 me-ter tall Eastern White Cedar, most of which also appear to be dead or dying. These trees appear to be 150-200 years in age. Red Oak. White Pine, Tulip Poplar and Linden and at least two species of hickory and of birch are common sub-dominant trees although few appear older than 75 years. Oak. hazel and vibur-num saplings and poison ivy predominate as understory (Otis 1973).
2. Ferris's recent historical revisions (2008) are a significant historical contribution to the early Colonial period in this region. He recognized that European-induced economic warfare among a number of aboriginal groups exacerbated older sys-tems of raiding and adoption that had maintained the fluidity of "tribal" exis-tence. By documenting how those quasi-ethnic systems adapted to meet Euro-peans' changing nationalistic military and clerical demands, Ferris questions the legitimacy of imposed tribal labels in what he calls "master narrative" histories composed by Europeans.
3. Analyses and description of the 2013/14 excavations of the historic 19th and 20th century occupations of Apple Island were conducted by the Western Michi-gan University Anthropology Department field crews under the direction of Dr. LouAnn Wurst.
4. In Albert's (1995) report he characterized the regional geography as follows:"... the region represents an inter-lobate area between three glacial lobes, which formed approximately 13,000 to 16,000 years B.P.... Topography con-sists of broad expanses of outwash sands that surround sandy and gravelly
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end moraines and ground moraines.... End and ground moraines remain as hills surrounded by flat outwash Large segments of end moraine and outwash include kames and eskers with many contiguous kettle lakes and ponds.
Extensive wetlands surround many of those kettle lakes where marl and peat deposits were mined in the past. ... The complex of lakes drain north to the Shiawassee, east to the Clinton and south to the Rouge Rivers while headwaters of the Huron, Grand, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph Rivers origi-nate in wetlands to the west"Slopes are generally in the 0 to 6 percent but on end moraine ridges slopes can be 25 to 40 percent. ... Soils range from sand to clay; the most common soil texture is sandy loam on moraines and sand on outwash plains.
"[Pre-Contact] Vegetation reflects underlying differences in landform andtopography. On the sandy moraines, open savannas of black oak, white oak, and hickory were common. GLO surveyors described the open oak forests as "barrens," “oak openings," "barren and scrubby timber," or "scat-tered timber."... GLO notes quote... numerous historic references to Native-American fires in the oak savannas or barrens.
"Bur oak savannas were located on the smaller "islands" of gently sloping ground moraine and end moraine at the western edge of the sub-subsec-tion. Other dominants of the oak savannas were white oak, black oak, and chinquapin oak.... On droughty ice- contact topography[kettles and kames], black oak (probably including some northern pin oak) was com-monly the dominant forest species. White oak and hickory were also com-mon on slightly moister ice-contact sites, and red oak occupied moist foot slopes. In areas of ice-contact topography, wetlands were commonly re-stricted to narrow belts surrounding kettle lakes. These consisted of shrub, hardwood, or conifer [tamarack] swamps.”
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5. The Cranbrook Institute of Science currently has on display a bark canoe (Cat-alog # 894) which was donated to them by Mr. Lloyd Strong in 1939. In May, 1940, Strong wrote to the CIS to correct an earlier misidentification of the person who had donated the bark canoe. His letter to Director Robert Hatt, from Strong’s Pavillion in Keego Harbor stated that he wanted the donor to be record-ed as “Strong’s Pavillion". Strong added, “I have no further information concern-ing the history of the boat except that it is supposed to have been made on Apple Island by some of Pontiac’s tribe.”
Although the earlier 1940 letter does not mention it, in 1997 Diane Treacy-Cole, a grand-daughter of Strong’s, wrote to the Curator of the Cranbrook Institute of Science that her grandfather had discovered the canoe buried in Orchard Lake and “recovered it” prior to donating it to CIS. Correspondence on file at the GWBHS indicates Strong ran a dance pavilion in the 1920s on Cass Lake Road, which he turned into a canoe livery in the 1930’s. One source indicates Mr. Strong found the canoe, another that he was given the canoe when he ran the livery.
While birchbark canoes were usually of more northern origin, the journals of Hugh Heyward indicate they were used by both Awada and French Canadian traders in the region well into the 19th century. It is true that bark canoes and dugouts were often submerged or buried to keep them from drying out too much or for winter storage (Brose and Greber 1982). However, the shallower waters of Orchard Lake seem neither cold enough in the summer nor oxygen-deprived enough, to preserve a bark canoe for 150 years.
Mr. Richard Zurel, a student of Oakland County archaeology, has mentioned that some time in the 1950s a degraded 4 meter long dugout canoe, found near the is-land and given to the Historical Society, was donated to the Cranbrook Institute of Science in return for the loan of a 3.5 meter long dugout with no known place of origin but which had been purchased for the CIS in the 1930s. That more well-preserved dugout on loan from Cranbrook is on display in the GWBHS museum.
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6. Stafford received his graduate training at the University of Wisconsin where his major professor, T. Douglas Price had been trained in field work at the Uni-versity of Michigan. That is where Brose also received his graduate training. Under the direction of James Bennet Griffin the University of Michigan used this North and East system of field excavation designations in the era prior to GPS tagging.
7. Nassaney (2012) has documented the wide array of French and British artifacts and the very diverse nature of mammals, birds and fish used for food which have been recovered from excavations at the contemporary French and Indian occupations at Fort Saint Joseph from 1721 until its 1763 capture. The most com-prehensive documentary (not archaeological) overview of the general sequences of European artifacts destined for Native Americans during what has been called the Fur Trade period will be found in the unpublished Michigan State University Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology by Dean Anderson, current Michigan State Archaeologist..
8. 1 mm = 3.0 sixtieth-fourth of an inch =.0396875 inches. 1.562mm = 4.686 sixtieth- fourths inch.
9. Many, but not all of the unit bags of recovered faunal material from the 2000 and 2003 excavations contained cut and modified bone, and a few contained arti-facts. While most of those were late 19th or early 20th century glass or industrial porcelain fragments, a few of the unit bags contained small prehistoric or mid-18th century artifacts or pieces thereof (see Appendix A).
Most of the unit bags from 2000 and 2003 carried some notation such as: 43 FCR; or 103 FCR; or even 1193 FCR, clearly enumerating either the count or the weight of the fire-cracked rock encountered in the excavation of the levels indicated for that unit. As the average number associated with the FCR designation on 56 of more than 110 unit bags analyzed in 2014 was 115 FCR it appeared unlikely that all of these designations represented a being the mean weight of fire cracked rock
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from those units in which it was recovered. The mean weight of firecracker rock recovered from all units excavated at site 20OK476 in the 2000 2003, 2008 and 2013 excavation seasons was 28 grams. The low number is due to the large num-ber of excavated units (nearly 43%) in which no fire-cracked rock was recorded.
10. In 2012 a formal geographic survey of Apple Island was performed by SKMBT Engineering for the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society. The maps prepared by that survey are incorporated into this report. The survey also identified the core Datum point for all 2000-2013 archaeological test excavations at Site 20OK476 as located at ”26.42428’ North Longitude and 83º22”2222.20048’ West Latitude. [UTM Northing 47180.90.508 Easting 305310.622].
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APPENDIX E 20 OK 476 TEST UNIT RECOVERY 2008
Unit designation: Test Pit #1Grid location at center of south wall: N95E00Size: 50cm x 50 cmLevel: 1Material Recovered: No cultural materials
Unit designation: Test Pit #2Grid location at center of south wall: N90E00Size: 50cm x 50 cmLevel: 1Material Recovered: 1 fragment burned clay, possibly non-cultural
3 flakes Dundee chert, possibly probed
Unit designation: Test Pit #3Grid location at center of south wall: N85E00Size: 50cm x 50 cmLevel: 1Material Recovered: 1 small probed core of Dundee chert
3 fragments charcoal3 split sections ruminant (deer?) long bone2 fragments deer scapulae5 granitic FCR cobbles -595 grams3 small fragments granitic FCR – 83 grams
Unit designation: 08-01Northwest corner grid coordinate: N82E04Size: 1 meter x 1 meterLevel: 1 Material Recovered: 3 small mammal bone fragments
2 bird/reptile bone fragments1 rodent incisor2 unmodified fragments Dundee chert2 fragments FCR limestone – 85 grams13 granitic FCR cobbles unmodified –797 grams1 granite cobble showing battering – 110 grams
Unit designation: 08-01Northwest corner grid coordinate: N82E04Size: 1 meter x 1 meterLevel: 2 Material Recovered: No cultural materials
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Unit designation: 08-02Northwest corner grid coordinate: N90W10Size: 1 meter x 1 meterLevel: 1Material Recovered: 3 cobbles burned limestone – 120 grams
1 probed Dundee chert pebble1 fragment clam shell3 fragments split ruminant long bone1 small deer mandible with three adult teeth, slightly worn16 fragments granite and schist FCR – 680 grams
Unit designation: 08-02Northwest corner grid coordinate: N90W10Size: 1 meter x 1 meterLevel: 2Material Recovered: 1 flake cut sheet copper
1 granite FCR cobble – 275 grams6 probed chunks Dundee chert1 grit-tempered, smoothed over cordmarking pottery sherd
Unit designation: 08-03Northwest corner grid coordinate: N86W0.25Size: 1meter x 1 meterLevel: 1Material Recovered: 3 fragmented young deer long bone
1 unfused centroquartal [juvenile] deer bone2 fragments burned clay2 grit-tempered smoothed over cord-marking pottery sherds4 calcined crushed mammal bone fragments 2 fragments amphibian/reptile bone 2 turtle carapace scutes
3 small charcoal fragments
Unit designation: 08-03Northwest corner grid coordinate: N86W0.25Size: 1meter x 1 meterLevel: 2Material Recovered: 2 fragments [deer?] ruminant vertebrae
1 burned and abraded limestone or gypsum pebble2 grit and shell-tempered surface-spalled potsherds1 grey and black [Upper Mercer or Port Franks] flint biface section5 mid-sized ruminant [deer?] skull fragments
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Unit designation: 08-03Level: 2 (Continued)Additional Material Recovered:
1 section adult deer temporal bone – no antler core1 sturgeon skull fragment with teeth1 fish or amphibian palate/skull fragment1 piece calcined mammal bone2 granitic FCR cobbles – 1077 grams1 piece leached limestone/mudstone2 unmodified granite cobbles – 397 grams1 battered-end granite cobble – 367 grams
Unit designation: 08-03Northwest corner grid coordinate: N86W0.25Size: 1meter x 1 meterLevel: 3Material Recovered: 1 iron concretion or end of clasp knife handle
4 fragments of crushed calcined mammal bone4 rough Dundee chert block flakes
Unit designation: 08-03Northwest corner grid coordinate: N86W0.25Feature 1: Shallow firepit baseDimensions: Oval area of reddened and partially fused [burned] coarse sands; 65cm E-W by 54 cm N-S; 24 cm deep in centerMaterial Recovered: fragments of calcined mammal bone
Small fragments of charcoal
Unit designation: 08-04Northwest corner grid coordinate: N86.5W1.5Size: 1meter x 1 meterLevel: 1Material Recovered: 1 surface-leached Petoskey stone – 567 grams
1 ruminant [deer] calcaneus1 ruminant [deer] phalange2 fragments cut sheet copper1 rusted iron fish hook1 bird long bone3 fish jaw/skull bones1 fish vertebrae1 fish/amphibian dermal plate