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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 2



Archaeological Research at the Fortress of Louisbourg, 1961-1965

by Edward McM. Larrabee

Reports derived from Archaeological work at the Fortress of Louisbourg before 1966

Except as noted, all reports listed are unpublished manuscript reports in the Fortress of Louisbourg project files, and were written for internal use and for reconstruction purposes.

Structural or Survey Reports

Akerman, Jeremy B.
1985

The Casemates in the Left Flank of the King's Bastion: A survey of Available Evidence.

Fry, Bruce W.
1964a

Archaeological Report on the Left Face Interior Revetment of the King's Bastion.

1964b
Princess Half-bastion (Rescue work).

1964c
Archaeological Report on the South Half of the Chateau, Fortress of Louisbourg, N.S.

1966
Archaeological Report on the Right Flank Escarp of the King's Bastion.

Gluckman, Stephen J.
1963a

Preliminary Report: Underwater Archaeology of the Harbour and Coast of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.

1963b
Final Report: underwater Archaeology of the Harbour and Coast of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.

Graham, John R.
1961

A Report on the Defences of the City, and On the Siege works constructed by the English.

1962
Archaeological Survey of the Grand Battery, Louisbourg, N.S.

Hansen, Erik S., and J. Sherman Bleakney 1962
Underwater Survey of Louisbourg Harbour for Relics of the Siege of 1758. Acadia University Institute, Woilville, N.S.

Harper, J. Russell 1959
The Fortress of Louisbourg. A report of preliminary archaeological investigations carried out in the summer of 1959 under contract with the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.

Harrison, Peter D.
1964

Archaeological Report on the Right Face Casemates of the King's Bastion.

Howard, James H.
1963a

Preliminary Report: Archaeology of the King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg.

1963b
Final Report: The Archaeology of the King's Bastion. Fortress of Louisbourg.

Lane, Richard B.
1966

Archaeological Report of the Terreplein of the King Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg.

Marwitt, John P.
1966

Archaeological Investigation of the King's Bastion Outer Works, Fortress of Louisbourg.

MacLeod, Donald L.
1965

Archaeological Report on the Right Flank, King's Bastion.

Vogel, Joseph O.
1965

Archaeological Report on the King's Chapel, Chateau, St. Louis.

1966a
An Archaeological Report on the Postern Tunnel, King's Bastion.

1966b
Archaeological Report on the Townside Fortifications, Fortress of Louisbourg.

Walker, Iain C.
1963

Preliminary Report: Excavations at King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg, September to December, 1962.

1964a
Excavation Report on well found in the Basement of United Church, Louisbourg, N.S.

1964b
Archaeological Report on the North Half of the Chateau, Fortress of Louisbourg, N.S.

1966a
Archaeological Report on the Revetted Glacis of the King's Bastion.

1967a
"Excavation with a Backhoe." Ontario Archaeology, Publication No. 10.

Artifact Reports

Dunton, John V. N., and Renée H. Marwitt
1965

Chateau St. Louis, Archaeological Furnishings Report, Part I, Vols. I-VI. On glass, small finds. faience, coarse earthenware and building hardware.

Gall, Patricia L., and Kathleen R. Lynch
1962

A Preliminary Analysis of the Artifacts from the Fortress of Louisbourg.

Marwitt, Renée H.
1965

A Punch Card Code for Glass Analysis.

1866
Analysis of Wine Bottles from the Fortress of Louisbourg.

1967a
"Punch Card Design for Ceramic Analysis." The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology, Papers, 1965-1966 (May), Vol. 1, pp. 19-26. Wilmington, N.C.

1967b
"A Preliminary Survey of Seven Coarse Earthenwares from the Fortress of Louisbourg. The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology, Papers, 1965-1966 (May), Vol. 1, pp. 53-59, Wilmington, N.C.

Omwake, H. Geiger
1965

Report on the Clay Tobacco Pipes from Casemate Right 4, King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg.

Swannack, Jervis D., Jr.
1968

Paving Stones of the King's Bastion.

Walker, Iain C.
1965a

A Study of Clay Pipe Fragments from Casemate Rights I, King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg.

1965b
"Some Thoughts on the Harrington and Binford Systems of Statistically Dating Clay Pipes." Archeological Society of Virginia, Quarterly Bulletin (Dec), vol. 20, No, 2, pp. 60-64.

1966b
A Study of the Clay Pipes from Casemates Right 10 to 15, King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg.

1966c
Chateau St. Louis, Archaeological Furnishings Report, Part I, Vol. VIII. Clay Tobacco Pipes.

1966d
"TD Pipes — A Preliminary Study." Archeological Society of Virginia, Quarterly Bulletin (June), Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 86-102.

1966e
"A Pipemaker's Mark from Gouda. The Netherlands — Then and Now." American Antiquity, Vol. 31, No. 5, Pt. 1 (July), Salt Lake City.

1966f
"Dating from Modern Bottles." El Palacio, vol. 73, No. 3 (Autumn), Santa Fe.

1967b
"Clay Pipes from the Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada," The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology, Papers, 1965-1966. (May), Vol. 1. Wilmington, N.C.

1967c
"Clay Pipes from the Fortress of Louisbourg. Archaeology (June), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 187-93. Columbia, Mo. These are both derived from a longer paper delivered at the ESAF Conference, November, 1965. There is a résumé of this on pp. 14-15, Eastern States Archaeological Federation Bulletin, No. 25 (May). Trenton, N.J.

Other Reports

Anderson, James E.
1964

The Human Skeletons in the King's Chapel, Fortress of Louisbourg.

Macdougal, J. I.
1964

The Louisbourg Park Area. A survey of the soils in the Fortress and surrounding vicinity.

Hunter College, New York



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