UREN PREHISTORIC VILLAGE SITE, OXFORD COUNTY, 
ONTARIO 
INTRODUCTION 
Uren prehistoric village site is on the farm of Joseph N. Uren, on the 
south half of lot 8, concession VII, South Norwich township, Oxford 
county, Ontario. 
The writer, who made an intensive exploration of it from September 1 
to September 31, 1920, for the National Museum of Canada, wishes to 
acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Uren for permission to excavate on 
his property; to his son, Gordon Uren, for presenting some specimens found 
at the site; to Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, curator of the Division of Mammals, 
and Dr. J. W. Gidley, assistant curator of the Division of Fossil Mammals, 
U. S. National Museum, Washington, for identifying most of the mam- 
malian remains; to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary, Smith- 
sonian Institution, for identifying the bird remains, and to Air. Morley 
E. Wilson, Geological Survey, Canada, for determinations of most of the 
rocks and minerals. 
Most of the illustrations are from drawings made by the author. 
Three others, including the map, are the work of O. E. Prud’homme, artist 
of the Anthropological Division. Except where otherwise stated all 
illustrations are one-half actual size. 
THE SITE 
The Uren site is about 15 acres in extent and shows the usual evidences 
of occupancy, consisting of refuse deposits composed of black soil and 
ashes, through which are scattered artifacts, animal bones, etc. The site 
was not enclosed by earthworks and no traces of palisades were discovered. 
It is one of ten sites within an area of about 20 square miles, 1 all of the 
same culture and all of which may have been occupied contemporaneously. 
They differ from most later Neutral sites in this county and in Waterloo 
county, and resemble Algonkian sites 2 in being close together, and also in 
being mostly on the banks of large streams. 
KDne site is on the farms of James Johnston and Robert Mash, a few hundred yards to the north. A single refuse 
deposit occurs south of the site on the farm of C. Daikens, in concession VIII of the same township. Three or four 
other deposits are on the south bank of Campbell creek, still farther south in the same concession. East of the 
quarter townline, there are two deposits on the McMullen, and two or three on the Williams farms, lot 7, concession 
VII. There is a large site on the farms of John Oddy and George Bertrand, lot 7, concession VIII. Others are on 
the McLeod farm, lot 2, concession VII, and on the A. E. Moore farm, lot 15, concession IX. A site on the farm of 
Angus Oatman, lot 28, concession XI, apparently also belongs to the same culture. There are two sites in North 
Norwich township, one being on the farm of George Huggins, lot 2, and the other on the Campbell farm, lot 3, con- 
cession VI. There is also a site on the Force farm, north half of lot 14, concession III, Burford township, Brant 
county. 
2 iiee maps, Wintemberg, J. W. : “Archaeology of Blenheim Township,” Annual Archaeological Report, 1902, 
being part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education of Ontario, Toronto, 1903, and “Archsoology of 
Blandford Township,” Victoria Memorial Museum, Bull. No. 1, Oct. 23, 1913. 
