Bone needle

A variety of bone tools have been found on the Lawson site, most frequently needles and awls. Some needles have such fine points that they may have been used for healing or perhaps—as in the case of this deer bone needle—tattooing. The Lawson site is a fortified 16th century Indigenous site located at the confluence of Medway River and Snake Creek. The site has been known to archaeologists since the mid-1800s and is now an Ontario designated heritage site and part of the Museum of Ontario Archaeology’s grounds.