The Lamoureux Site
BiFs-2
Jean-Luc Pilon
Canadian Museum of Civilization
The Lamoureux site, BiFs-2, is located in Eastern Ontario just above the floodplain of the South Nation River between the town of Pendleton and the Muldoon site, BiFs-1.
Since the farms in this region were first cleared and ploughed, local farmers have been finding ancient artifacts in their sandy fields without fully understanding the story they had to tell, but well aware that they were witnesses to bygone times. Indeed, knowledge of the existence of an archaeological site in this area was first brought to the attention of archaeologists by Mrs. Doris Robinson, née Muldoon, who had been raised on one of these farms (Pilon 1999).
Work carried out at the Muldoon site in 1997 and later in 2003 (Swayze 2003, 2004) and subsequent radiocarbon dating of butternut shell fragments found in pit features indicate that occupations of the sand ridge date back to late Archaic times, some 4170 years ago (remarkably, the four samples submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating yielded identical results of 4170±40 radiocarbon years ago). The collections at both the Muldoon and Lamoureux sites are dominated by often heavily-used ground stone axes and adzes, as well as a relatively narrow range of stemmed or broadly side-notched narrow projectile points.
Below are some of the artifacts found during surface collecting at the Lamoureux site.
This item was discarded with so many others during potato harvesting operations. It may be a broken ground stone axe or adze.
Pilon, Jean-Luc
1999 Données archéologiques du bassin de la Petite Nation Sud. ArchéoLogiques 11-12: 3-7.
Swayze, Ken
2003 A Stage 1&2 Archaeological Assessment of Lot 14&15 Concession 10 South Plantagenet Township (GEO) and the Muldoon Site BiFs-1 Prescott and Russell County (Preliminary Report). Manuscript on file with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau.
2004 A Stage 4 Archaeological Assessment of the Muldoon Site BiFs-1 Lot 14&15 Concession 10 South Plantagenet Township (GEO) Prescott and Russell County. Manuscript on file with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau.