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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 6
by William C. Noble ContentsAbstract Acknowledgements Introduction Techniques and Method Techniques of ExcavationMethods of Analysis Description of Features PalisadesExterior Walls Trench Feature Exterior Extension Walls Exterior Palisade Details Gateways South Gateway North Gateway Interior Palisade Walls Wall Behind Building II Wall Flanking South Gateway Interior Interstice Bastions North Corner Bastion South Gateway Overhead Bastion Southwest Bastion Buildings Building I Building II Building III Building IV Building V Building VI Building VII Pits Pit 1 Pit 2 Pit 3 Pit 4 Pit 5 Pit 6 Pit 7 Pit 8 Pit 9 Pit 10 Pit 11 Pit 12 Pit 13 Pit 14 Pit 15 Pit 16 Pit 17 Pit 18 Pit 19 Stain Feature Bead Cache Dump Against East Palisade Fur Press Surface Ash Deposits Wood Chip Concentrations Artifact Descriptions Personal and Household ItemsPipes Buttons Cufflinks Lead Cross Earrings Watch Winder Copper Band Hawk Bells Needles Pin Forks Glass Vials Glass Bottles Ceramics Hunting and Subsistence Items Gunflints Gun Sear Spherical Lead Balls Spherical Lead Shot Lead Sprue Fishhooks Lead Sinker Melted Lead Pieces Pelt Stretcher Bone, Shell and Bark Artifacts Tools and Hardware Nails Copper Rivet Copper Tack Iron Hoops and Fragments Files Iron Punches Offset Awls Cold Chisel Iron Wedges Knives Whetstones Latch Pintle Clear Window Glass Threaded Lead Tube Silver Fragment Copper Strap Sheet Copper Fragments Tin Fragments Trade and Business Items Glass Trade Beads Metal Projectile Points Brass Banglers Bail Fasteners Pencils Bale Tag Brass Spigot Aboriginal Artifacts Stone Pipe Bowls Scrapers Large Flesher Anvil Stone Core Chert Flakes Interpretation and Historical Identification Two Forts on the Same SiteThe Original Fort The Extended Fort Historical Cross-Checks Bibliography
1 Personal and Household Items 2 Concentration of Clay Pipe Bowl Portions 3 Concentration of Clay Pipe Stem Portions 4 Button Distribution 5 Ceramics from Rocky Mountain House 6 Hunting and Subsistence Items 7 Distribution of Spherical Lead Balls 8 Distribution of Lead Shot 9 Distribution of Antler Tine Tips 10 Tools and Hardware. 11 Analysis of Nails from Rocky Mountain House 12 Nail Heads and Mode of Manufacture 13 Rockwell B Hardness Tests on Sample Nail Shanks 14 Distribution of Sheet Copper Fragments 15 Trade and Business Items 16 Glass Beads from Rocky Mountain House 17 Distribution of Seed Beads 18 Shapes and Colours of Large Subcylindrical Beads 19 Distribution of Large Subcylindrical Beads 20 Shapes and Colours of Tubular Beads 21 Distribution of Tubular Beads 22 Shapes and Colours of Barrel Beads 23 Distribution of Barrel Beads 24 Shapes and Colours of Globular Beads 25 Distribution of Globular Beads 26 Distribution of Cut Metal Projectile Points 27 Cut Metal Projectile Point Measurements 28 Brass Banglers 29 Distribution of Brass Banglers 30 Bail Fastener Measurements 31 Distribution of Bail Fasteners 32 Aboriginal Artifacts 33 Stone Pipe Bowls 34 Distribution of Stone Pipe Bowls
1 Map of Rocky Mountain House area, Alberta 2 Contour map and quadrants at Rocky Mountain House 3 Ground plan of Rocky Mountain House 4 Fallen boards of palisade 5 The south gateway of the extended fort 6 The north corner bastion 7 Outline of the north corner 8 The original south gateway 9 The southwest bastion of the extended fort 10 Building I and its associated single-hearth fireplace 11 Double-hearth fireplace in building II 12 Double-hearth in building II 13 Double-hearth base in building II 14 Post 4 looking west 15 Ground plan of building III 16 Ground plan of building IV 17 Ground plan of building V 18 Ground plan of building VI 19 Plan of subterranean building VII in pit 11 20 East wall profile of pit 1 21 North wall profile of pit 2 22 West wall profile of pit 3 23 North wall profile of pit 4 24 North wall profile of pit 5 25 South wall profile of pit 6 26 West wall profile of pit 9 27 North wall profile of pit 10 and west wall section of dump adjoining pit 10 28 Pit 10 in cross-section 29 North wall profile of pit 11 30 Pit 11 excavation 31 East wall profile of pit 12 32 West wall profile of pit 13 33 East wall profile of pit 14 34 Pit 14 and its nest of iron hoops 35 East wall profile of pit 15 36 East wall profile of pit 17 37 Cross-section of pit 17 38 East wall profile of pit 18 39 East wall profile of pit 19 40 Fur press base 41 Aerial view of Rocky Mountain House 42 Banglers and pipe fragments 43 Decorated and plain buttons 44 Personal items 45 Ceramics and glass 46 Gunflints, shot and lead 47 Rivets, tacks and nails 48 Nail types 49 Nails and sharpening file 50 Wedges, awls and punches 51 Knife blades, files and fork 52 Glass trade beads 53 Projectile points and bail fasteners 54 The two forts at Rocky Mountain House |
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