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THE ERA The Era New marketAurora Keswick a it Wed December 3 The Second Section Sports News District News Entertainment Excavating on the site north of Sutton once the blow sand has been removed is done with garden trowels a little at a time so fragile pottery fragments and other finds wont lie damaged The day The Era reporter took these photos snow covered the ground and the excavation was closed for the winter Above 1111 Harvey digs while Jack Dear looks on Some finds go back to around 800 BC diana In a Held north here Jack Dear and Bill Harvey both amateur archaeologists and members the Ontario Archaeological Society have found pottery fragments projectile points flints and charcoal from that date close to 1000 years A second site near which Dear a Sutton High School science teacher has spent a lot of lime excavat ing goes back even earlier University Toronto archaeologi cal department exports who have dated material from both sites say the site dates back to between BC and BOO BC At one point the two men thought they had discovered a mound site north into then keep detailed records of all the finds in each area From the records emerge a complete picture of the area as proceed Sometimes matching parts of pots or smoking pipes have been found many feet apart at the sight north of Sutton and matching pottery fragments have been found at varying depths This may indicate that a midden Is being excavated an area used by torn of the ridge today Dear and Harvey now have cords showing the locations of about Rill Harvey and his electronic metal detector Jack Dear tends to discount this theory now in light of his most recent pot tery finds Until the Sutton area blanketed with snow and the ground froze Dear took his high school students out early in the morning and on weekends to help lim from District High School spent part of weekend on the site The two men use plain ordinary to find the sites that make poten tially good excavating We just have to get out and do survey work on farms in the area lo find out If the farmers have found anything bones arrowheads pieces of pottery when they are plowing said Harvey They discovered the site north of Sutton when a student from the high school happened lo mention it The site covers several acres pos sibly more and looks a good deal dif ferent today than it did to the Indians many hundreds of years ago In the intervening period blow sand has covered everything in some places to a depth of two feet or more The light sand is a boon to the diggers because below it everything is preserved just as it was when the sand rolled in Below the sand they bit a solid layer of charcoal indicating that the whole area was used for camp and cook fires during its period of habitation It Is usually in this layer of char coal that the diggers make their finds School old hook In an abaadoned farm house they were exploring The book published by a Col who owned properly on Balsam gave the locations of all the sites the colonel had found In his many years of searching Victoria County Were thinking about starling an archaeological society in this area said Harvey who first got interested In digging himself three years ago when he He didnt find any treasure but he did come up with a lot of pioneer Iron frying pans Implement parts and other hardware and his searches of old set tlors site lead lo his Interest fa Indian village sites About the only treasure I ever found with the thing was the time I took it to a provincial park and turned up in change he said The will indicate spots where metal is buried up to three feet in the earth and Harvey still uses it on his archaeological excavations because he hopes on some of the more recentlydated sites to find trade Items such as axe Among their many excavated treasures Dear and Harvey have clay Indian pipes many of them Intricately shaped and sculpted They plan to set up displays of their finds at Sutton High broken pieces found at an excavation It is they said because it closely resembles pottery dating from 100 to found in Ohio