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- Lab number
- GaK-1882
- Field number
- CMC- 292
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- south of Melita, on the right bank of the Souris River, Manitoba
- Map sheet
- 62 F/03
- Submitter
- R. Wilmeth
- Date submitted
- March 26, 0097
- Measured Age
- 850 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 850 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland, Blackduck; Sylvicole
- Context
- 1.5 m northwest of mound centre, driven into subsurface 15-20 cm
- Additional information
- This sample is identified incorrectly as S-690 in Syms (1978: 67).
- Comments
- DgMg-137, Heath Mound: Wood from a southern Manitoba mound was excavated by W.B. Nickerson in 1913 and 1914. Samples now at the Canadian Museum of Civilization were described by Capes (1963) and assigned to the Blackduck (Manitoba) focus by MacNeish (1954) or to "closely related peoples influenced by accumulated traits that reach back to Middle Woodland times" (Capes, 1963). Suggested dates are late prehistoric and early historic. Wood samples associated with three of Nickerson's mounds were submitted by R. Wilmeth in 1968 to test this conclusion. Wilmeth summarized characteristics of Heath Mound: Low broad mound, 18" high, 46 x 42 ft in diameter. Fifteen foot burned earth ring within mound, with burned poles below. Suggests mud-plastered hut destroyed by fire, mound built over ruin. Few artifacts found. See Capes (1963: 39-41). Comment by Wilmeth on dates from Mound G, Heath Mound, and Riverview Mound: date range indicates that the mounds were built over a longer period than originally thought. Two later dates (GaK-1881, -1882) are within Blackduck focus time range, but earliest date (GaK-1883) falls during the transition from Middle to Late Woodland. In view of the age of similar mounds in North and South Dakota (Neuman, 1967), the southern Manitoba mounds may represent a cultural tradition surviving from Middle Woodland to Historic times.