Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 3

The Armstrong Mound on Rainy River, Ontario

by Walter A. Kenyon

Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Excavation

Burials

Artifact Analysis

Pottery Analysis

Conclusions

Endnotes

Bibliography

Tables

Table 1: Projectile Points

Table 2: Pottery Type Distribution

Table 3: Attribute Distribution on Decorated Rims

Illustrations

1 Location of Long Sault Rapids on Rainy River.

2 Location of Armstrong Mound at Long Sault Rapids.

3 Location of Rainy River.

4 Floor plan at base of mound.

5 Vertical profiles through mound.

6 Projectile points.

7 Scrapers.

8 Sucking tube (?).

9 Monitor pipe.

10 Miscellaneous stone tools.

11 Lockport Linear rimsherds.

12 Lockport Linear rimsherds.

13 Corded and Lockport Plain rimsherds.

14 Miscellaneous rimsherds.

15 Nutimik Oblique rimsherds.