A late 17th-early 18th century site at Bay Bulls – PART 1

Between 2019 and 2023, a series of testing and data-recovery excavations were conducted at a shoreline property at Riverhead, Bay Bulls. This blog post will cover the 2019 and 2021 activities; the 2022 and 2023 activities will be covered in a later post. In 2019, family members of a local land owner approached Gerald Penney […]

Dr. Ingeborg Marshall

As she turns 95 on 11 May 2024, this blog post celebrates Dr. Ingeborg Marshall’s more than fifty years of commitment as a private scholar to the province’s history, and in particular to Beothuk history and archaeology. When she began this work in the early 1970s, original copies of James P. Howley’s 1915 volume on […]

Shamblers Cove

The Shamblers Cove site, located near Greenspond on the north side of Bonavista Bay, gains prominence in Newfoundland and Labrador archaeology due to the unique characteristics of its Dorset component. It should also be recognized for its multiple instances of First Nation occupations. The Historic Resources Division first became aware of this site in June […]