Artifacts and Features

Name: Beothuk Arrowhead (CiAj-1:1027)
Type: Lithics
Dimensions: Length: 39.5 mm; Width: 16.3 mm (at shoulder).

Date Range: Circa A.D. 1400 - A.D. 1650
Site: Russell's Point
Culture: Beothuk
Description:
Bifacial, expanding stemmed arrowhead made of light grey chert. Found in the southeast corner of the site.

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Name: Scraper
Type: Lithics
Dimensions: Length: 25 mm; width 17 mm

Date Range: AD 1000 - AD 1650
Site: Russell's Point
Culture: Beothuk
Description:
Chert scraper. This tool was probably used to scrape hides and would have originally been set in a wooden or bone handle.

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Name: Arrowhead
Type: Lithics
Dimensions: Length: 40 mm; Width 3 mm

Date Range: Circa AD 1000 - 1200
Site: Russell's Point
Culture: Recent Indian
Description:
Grey chert arrowhead with basal notching.

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Name: Westerwald Fragments
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: First half of the eighteenth century.

Date Range: ?
Site: New Perlican
Culture: European - German
Description:
Three small fragments of German Westerwald stoneware from Area B (just east of George Peddle's house).

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Name: Padlock
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Length 8.3 cm, Width: 5.7 cm; Thichness:1.9 cm.

Date Range: seventeenth century
Site: New Perlican
Culture: European - English
Description:
Highly corroded triangular, sliding bolt iron padlock found just east of George Peddle's house.

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