by Bill Finlayson | Jun 14, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
In my last two blog posts, Digging for Houses and Palisades Part 1 and Part 2, I discussed how we explored large areas of the Draper site to discover the remains of the longhouses and palisades which had been preserved in the yellow-brown subsoil. This represented...
by Bill Finlayson | Jun 3, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
In Digging for Houses and Palisades, Part 1, I discussed how we traced the outlines of houses and palisades on a portion of the Draper site which had been farm fields for more than a century. Draper was somewhat unusual in that most of the site was located in what had...
by Bill Finlayson | May 28, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
Our contract to undertake salvage excavations at the Draper site in 1975 was to dig the entire site. With the cancellation of the construction of the airport in the late summer of 1975 and the discovery that the site was considerably larger than previously thought, we...
