One of the many interesting artifacts found during our excavations is the Basque tile! These tiles have been found in several test pits...

Week Four of Memorial University's 2024 Field School on Turpin’s Island, Little St. Lawrence Fig. 1 The fantastic 2024 Memorial...

Week Three of Memorial University's 2024 Field School on Turpin’s Island, Little St. Lawrence Week three of excavations have begun on...

Ceramics and stoneware are common finds on Turpin's Island, reflecting the island's various periods of occupation. As the site's...

At first glance, one might think this is just an ordinary rock... this, however, is a gunflint! Gunflints were manufactured primarily by...

Week Two of Memorial University's 2024 Field School on Turpin’s Island, Little St. Lawrence Turpin’s Island archaeological project led by...

Ceramics have been found across many of the test pits excavated on Turpin’s Island. One of the most interesting types of these is...

Fragments of clay smoking pipes are frequently found in archaeological sites featuring occupations dating between the 16th and the 20th...

Week One at Memorial's 2024 Field School on Turpin’s Island, Little St. Lawrence Memorial archaeology field school led by Dr. Catherine...

Not long after tobacco was introduced to Europe in the beginning of the 16th century, clay pipes became a popular and affordable item...

Week Four at MUN's 2022 Field School at Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon We are a little bit very late with this post… sorry...

Marbles have been around for thousands of years, but the marbles we know and love today started being produced in Germany in the mid...

Pictured below is the seal from a bottle of Pernod Anise, a modified version of Pernod Absinthe, that we found fragmented but almost...

Week Three at MUN’s Field School at Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Week three at Anse à Bertrand started on a Saturday morning...

La version française sera disponible bientôt Week Two at MUN's 2022 Field School at Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Week two at...

Graphite rod were used in powering motorized dories during the 20th century. As most people familiar with the history of Saint-Pierre and...

The Anse à Bertrand site contains lots of interesting artifacts, one such artifact is this seal from an old French medicine bottle. The...

Linoleum is an organic based flooring made primarily from oxidized linseed oil. Invented by the Englishman Frederick Walton in 1860 it...

The first examples of salt-glazed stoneware include Bellarmine or Bartmann (bearded man) jugs from 15th century Germany. The Bartmann...

Version française ici Week One at MUN's 2022 Field School at Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon For the first time since the...