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we’re in an archaeological site in an
area that was excavated last year and
this year we’ve got stolen all around us
which dates partly from the 19th century
finally from the period when material
was founded in the 17th century what
we’ve had around us are also the remains
of Fort ville-marie which is the first
area that was colonized in 1642 in
Montreal was founded hey welcome to
watchmojo.com I mean who is Christine
today we’ll see the most recent
archaeological discoveries on the site
of montreal’s birthplace my child’s
founding place is obviously important
for its identity reasons it’s a tangible
link between the present French society
and the first colonists that came from
France to found in the trail the area
that we were standing in here right now
has got a fair amount of masonry around
it right in front of me is a fairly
large structure which we think was used
to transform iron ore into iron it’s not
the structure itself that tells us that
as much as the debris that accumulated
around the structure gary tanya was used
that debris that included schories
schories is what remains from iron ore
when the iron has been extracted and
sort of the sludge that floats to the
surface there was also coal which is
very unusual for the 17th century coal
was used to heat the iron ore and we
also found ashes from when this Forge
was cleaned out all these things
together tell us a story what technology
was actually implemented in this little
structure here and we also saw upstairs
some artifact could you talk a little
bit about those about ten feet behind me
there
domestic refuse it came partly from a
kitchen around here it contained a lot
of really organic soil which suggests
that there was vegetables or meat or
other things that had just just rotted
there it also contains a lot of remains
of meals bones bones of animals bones of
fish and so on and it contained a lot of
broken pottery this pottery is kind of
unusual because it’s the oldest pottery
day we have in Montreal some of it came
from France some of it was produced in
Quebec City where there was already a
small pottery industry these artifacts
are on display we’re studying them at
the University and expect that they’ll
be displayed in the museum shortly
we’re in an archaeological site in an
area that was excavated last year and
this year we’ve got stolen all around us
which dates partly from the 19th century
finally from the period when material
was founded in the 17th century what
we’ve had around us are also the remains
of Fort ville-marie which is the first
area that was colonized in 1642 in
Montreal was founded hey welcome to
watchmojo.com I mean who is Christine
today we’ll see the most recent
archaeological discoveries on the site
of montreal’s birthplace my child’s
founding place is obviously important
for its identity reasons it’s a tangible
link between the present French society
and the first colonists that came from
France to found in the trail the area
that we were standing in here right now
has got a fair amount of masonry around
it right in front of me is a fairly
large structure which we think was used
to transform iron ore into iron it’s not
the structure itself that tells us that
as much as the debris that accumulated
around the structure gary tanya was used
that debris that included schories
schories is what remains from iron ore
when the iron has been extracted and
sort of the sludge that floats to the
surface there was also coal which is
very unusual for the 17th century coal
was used to heat the iron ore and we
also found ashes from when this Forge
was cleaned out all these things
together tell us a story what technology
was actually implemented in this little
structure here and we also saw upstairs
some artifact could you talk a little
bit about those about ten feet behind me
there
domestic refuse it came partly from a
kitchen around here it contained a lot
of really organic soil which suggests
that there was vegetables or meat or
other things that had just just rotted
there it also contains a lot of remains
of meals bones bones of animals bones of
fish and so on and it contained a lot of
broken pottery this pottery is kind of
unusual because it’s the oldest pottery
day we have in Montreal some of it came
from France some of it was produced in
Quebec City where there was already a
small pottery industry these artifacts
are on display we’re studying them at
the University and expect that they’ll
be displayed in the museum shortly
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