Abstract

The Wilcox Lake site (AlGu-17) is a 1.2 hectare early Middle Iroquoian village situated in a public park along the elevated eastern shore of a large kettle lake in the Oak Ridges Interlobate Moraine physiographic region, approximately 35 km north of Toronto. Between 1989 and 1990, 383 square metres of the site were excavated by Archaeological Services Inc. in advance of the installation of a playground unit and washroom sewer line in the park. The available evidence indicates a year-round village occupation dating to between ca. A.D. 1280-1320. The Wilcox Lake site is beginning to provide data on a previously unknown regional expression of the Early to Middle Iroquoian transition. Although the ceramic sample is meagre, preliminary inter-site comparisons are made with the Uren, Boys, Bennett, and Barrie ceramic assemblages.