1) Donation of artifacts (Figure 1 & Figure 2) to a local museum led to a request to the OAS Ottawa Chapter to identify them.

2) Search for the site where they had been found led to the finding of three sites. The Pierce's Flow site (BdGc-6) has only historic period evidence. The Green site (BdGb-2) is now believed to be a late Palaeo/early Archaic Hi-Lo culture site of about 10,000 B.P., while the Cockrill site (BdGb-3) is now said to be the source of the collection (Figure 1 & Figure 2). However, limited trenching and walking the surface only yielded artifacts similar to those of the Green site, which suggests that Cockrill may have collected from more than his own farm, since the artifacts (Figure 1 & Figure 2) include early, middle and late Archaic examples. Most of the testing and excavation has been done at the Green site.

3) The Green site (BdGb-2) lithic assemblage is made up of one grey quartzite side-notched biface with Hi-Lo characteristics (Figure 3a) and many relatively crude quartz, quartzite or granite artifacts (Figure 4).

4) The Green site is on a small knoll adjacent to a steep rocky wall of the "mountain" which would have provided shelter from north winds and reflected heat from its south facing wall. The top of the mountain provides a good look-out of the surrounding territory, where the site occupants would have been able to observe the movements of caribou, which are believed to have been the primary source of meat at the time. The site is underlain by a dense layer of silty clay, which is believed to have been laid down in the bottom of a pro glacial freshwater lake that flooded from Lake Ontario to the Ottawa Valley immediately following deglaciation and prior to the occupation of the site. At the time of occupation the Champlain Sea was in receding phase and its western boundary lay a few kilometers to the east and north of the site location. A flowing freshwater spring is only 57 paces from the site location. If It existed at the time of occupation, it would have provided a very convenient source of water.

5) For additional information see Report of 1998 Field Work at the Hi-Lo Green Site (BdGb-2) and the Multi-component Archaic Cockrill Site (BdGb-3) in Eastern Ontario. Phillip Wright, Mount McGovern Inc. and Gordon D. Watson, Trent University and Canadian Museum of Civilization, The Ottawa Archaeologist, Vol. 27 No. 3, June 1999.