Where are We
Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc.
584 Oxford St. East
London, Ontario N5Y 3J1
tel:(519) 641-7222 fax:(519) 641-7220
email: ptimmins@tmhc.ca or hmartelle@tmhc.ca
TMHC is located at 584 Oxford Street East, near the corner of Oxford and Adelaide Streets in London Ont. The office is open from 8:00am until 4:30pm
The Dorchester Site is a 15th century
Iroquoian site, just east of Dorchester, Ont., overlooking the Thames River. Long known to local people
and archaeologists alike, the site was fully excavated by TMHC in 2004.
Professional archaeologists and university students together discovered not one but two exquisitely preserved palisaded villages. Hearths and ash pits in houses and
some enormous garbage features suggested that Aboriginal peoples hunted and fished along the Thames River. Probably they also grew crops in the sandy
soils around their villages. Residential development at the Dorchester Site illustrates that we are all still attracted to the same features of the landscape that drew peoples of the past.
The Thames and its surroundings remain a focus for
habitation after all these years.