A team of archaeologists from Hamilton are doing a thorough check of the area where the Sandwich Towne roundabout is being built.
They were contracted by the city to ensure there aren't any significant indigenous sites in the space.
Jim Molnar is leading the team, digging shovel sized holes 2 ft. deep about 5 m apart. They sift the soil dug out to identify any clues.
Molnar says at the entrance to the GLIER research building they located a few items.
"We found a few pieces of nails and wood and then flakes of chipped stone, they're from different time periods," says Molnar. "The nails the wood are from late 19th, early 20th century. the chipped stone are going to be indigenous and are potentially hundreds to thousands of years old."
Items founds in sample dig at Sandwich roundabout (by AM800's Peter Langille)
Molnar says the indicator is that this area was mostly undisturbed over time.
"What we're looking for is a nice buried topsoil layer with indigenous artifacts in it. That would be a nice undisturbed section of site that has the potential to tell us about how people live in the past. So when we find things that aren't mixed up that's the best."
Molnar says he's completed testing on most of the site, but is completing sampling along the perimeter.
He says it's hard to know when they'll be finished, but if they don't find anything unusual it will be another couple of weeks or less.