J.C. Trull Site (AlGq-72) - Darlington, ON

As promised, here are some pics I took on our last day at Trull. You can see that it was a particularly bad haze day over the construction site. Normally you can see Lake Ontario because we are located right on the shore of the lake, but it can hardly be seen through the pollution at 8am. The construction site is currently on the first three fields in from Courtice Rd. and our site was in the fourth field. As a result, we could drive out across half of the Construction site and park with other workers' vehicles, but then we had to walk the other half of the way into our site, which was still somewhat sheltered from the nastiness of blowing dirt and noisy machines.

If you are wondering why the features like the root cellar are excavated in quads, it is because they are so big and the Ministry only requires that 50% of a feature be excavated as long as a satisfactory range of artifacts have been found. Excavating in quadrants also provides four profiles of the fill.

The well was not excavated, because it's not that safe to dig them out and it looks like a lot of the stones from the original circular retaining wall had fallen into it. Wells seem to be commonly filled into with field stones rather than midden material full of artifacts. Although artifacts have been known to pop out of wells and we did find some around the rocks at the surface.

I am really sorry that the photos of that pipe didn't turn out that well, but it is clear enough that you can get an idea of what it looks like. It came out of one of the test units that we placed in the midden.


Construction site at Darlington 


Construction at Darlington - See the HAZE 


8am - Darlington Construction 


The filled-in well aka large pile of rocks 


The Well  


Through the woods, to other 'finds' 


Abandoned Car in the Woodlot 


Yep, It's a Plymouth 


It's seen better days 


Collapsed Barn 


Collapsed Barn2 


My favourite Tree at J.C. Trull 


The Whole Root Cellar - Quads 1 and 3 not taken out. 


Feature 15, Quad 4 - The Root Cellar 


Feature 15, Quad 4 - The Root Cellar2 


Feature 15, Quad 2 - The Root Cellar w/ Drain at top 


Feature 15, Quad 2 - The Root Cellar & Drain 


Cross-section of the West Drain attached to Quad 2 


The midden with 1 test unit put in 


Artifacts found on the surface of the midden 


Clay Pipe - bad profile 


Clay Pipe with Face on Bowl