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- Lab number
- GSC-4781
- Field number
- 79-GS-114
- Material dated
- marine shells
- Taxa dated
- Spisula solidissima ("surf clam") (identified by D.R. Grant)
- Locality
- on shore of St. Mary's Bay (Gulf of Maine), at Bourneuf's Wharf, 3.7 km north northeast of Church Point cathedral, Digby County southwestern Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 021 B/08
- Submitter
- D.R. Grant
- Date submitted
- June 10, 0095
- Measured Age
- 1660 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2070 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- 0.56
- Significance
- archaeological, Maritime Archaic Complex; sea level change
- Context
- surface collection, underlain by marine gravel, with stone implements, including a quartzite adze and slate scrapers
- Comments
- GSC-4781 Comment (D.R. Grant): The sample comes from the lower 10 cm of a deposit which covers about one hectare and averages about 0.5 m thick overlying emerged deglacial marine gravel. The date and the accompanying cultural material (stone implements, including a quartzite adze and slate scrapers) indicates that the deposit is a prehistoric Indian refuse heap or midden. A clay pipe stem (Dutch-type) in the upper 10 cm indicates that the site was in use until the early colonial period, although not necessarily continuously. The deposit probably correlates with a shell-heap near Yarmouth (also discovered by DRG) which gave an essentially concordant age of 1520 ± 60 BP and was tentatively assigned to the Maritime Archaic Complex (ancestors of the present Mic Mac aboriginal population) by Grant (1980) on the basis of descriptions of several similar occurrences in southwestern Nova Scotia (Erskine, 1960).