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

Figure 6.3. Bell Terrace and Bell Flats.
bridge, we consider the occupation part of the Cayuga
Bridge site.
The soils at this locale are alternating layers of alluvium
and palaeosol (Figure 6.5). This stratigraphy is
similar to that reported at Grand Banks (Crawford et
al. 1997; Crawford et al. 1998). No cultural remains
were recovered from P1. A meter to a meter and a half
of alluvium (A2) overlies P2, the palaeosol associated
with the Princess Point occupation of the river bar. A
few centimeters above P2 is a scatter of late nineteenth
century artifacts in a 1-2 cm thin lens above P2 and
restricted to the southern half of the excavation. An
AMS date on wood charcoal associated with the historic
artifacts is recent (Table 6.1). Plow scars are visible
in P2, much as they are at Grand Banks. Considering
their nearly 1 m depth below the surface, these scars
are likely as old as the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries
A.D. Quite possibly they are historic Iroquois in
origin, given that European settlement in the area postdates
1850.
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