Site Development
• located on provincial land but requires access
through private
farmyard
• requires initial temporary display at the museum of the
cultural levels, consisting of photos and artifacts plus illustrative
fact sheets on the excavation levels, to be replaced by a larger
permanent exhibit in the interpretive centre
• needs interpretive signage at the site
• possibility of a plaque by Historic Resources Branch
B. Snyder II Site North (DgMg-15)
• located on SW 'A
33-2-27 Wl, along the bank of Gainsborough
Creek
• location of an excavated storage pit, sweatlodge pit, mounds C
and D, the earthen "great enclosure" and several Precontact camps
(Capes 1963; Syms 1974, 1977, 1979a, 1980, 1988)
• source of fragments of a Devils Lake-Sourisford Burial Culture
shell mask/gorget made from the shell of a giant conch, a marine snail
from the Gulf Coast, dating circa. AD850-1300 (Syms 1977, 1979a, 1988)
(see image, inside front cover)
• presence of a deep storage pit is strong eviŽdence that local Native
hoe agriculture was being practiced in the AD 1600-1700's, before
European settlers arrived (Syms 1974; Flynn and Syms 1996)
• 2006 test excavations yielded evidence of the central stone
feature of a sweat lodge |
Excavation of deep storage pit in 1970 at
Snyder
II Site.
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Site Development
• access is via a long meandering road along the
edge of fields
owned by 2 landowners, i.e. Doug Snyder and Lloyd Harmon
• develop temporary exhibit about the site and about First
Nations traditional hoe agri
culture for the museum and develop site fact
