The 1995 Trinity Bight Archaeology Project

In several previous posts, I have told you about archaeological surveys from all over the province and sites found during those surveys on posts such as Don’t Forget Your Shovel: Archaeology Surveys and the two year project the Labrador South Coastal Survey. Sites found during surveys include those from the survey of the Bird Cove […]

Finding Archaeology Sites

One of the questions I’m often asked is how archaeologists find sites. While there is no one particular way, sometimes it is as simple as just using a shovel to dig holes while being guided by our experience and education. For example, in 1997 I participated in archaeological testing of the area around Bird Cove […]

Trepassey Battery

Like all humans, Europeans have a long history of wars and fighting. Many of those wars spilled over into North America and so inevitably Newfoundland and Labrador often played a role in many of those conflicts. Evidence of this can be seen in numerous places such as Fort York in Labrador, the wreck of HMS […]