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Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 –1300

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Figure 6.2. Lower Grand River Valley (Cayuga to York) showing<br />

Princess Point Sites.<br />

Cayuga Bridge (AfGx-1)<br />

The majority of the 1998 field season involved an<br />

investigation of the Cayuga Bridge site (Figure 6.2).<br />

Cayuga Bridge is located on a floodplain of the Grand<br />

River. David Stothers excavated 20 m of riverbank<br />

south of the Highway 3 bridge in 1974; the University<br />

of Toronto excavations were north of the bridge and 10<br />

m from the riverbank. An undated photograph depicts<br />

a wood-frame structure in the area of our excavation,<br />

opposite a small wharf or processing operation.<br />

Artifacts are abundant in an exposed palaeosol along<br />

the riverbank for most of the length of the river flat.<br />

Stothers originally identified the location north of the<br />

bridge as a separate site, Smith, which he considered to<br />

be Archaic; however, it is clearly a Princess Point occupation.<br />

Because the site is on the same floodplain and<br />

separated from the 1974 excavations only by a modern<br />

Chapter 6 Early Late Woodland in Southern Ontario: An Update (1996–2000) 119

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