If you have visited Trent University’s Symons campus recently, you might have noticed some activity at the front entrance. If you’ve been wondering what’s going on, wonder no more. The site is a part of Trent University’s Ontario Archaeology Field School, a full-credit Anthropology course that runs each summer at the Peterborough campus.
According to field director and demonstrator for the Anthropology department at Trent, Kate Dougherty, Trent’s Symons campus was once the location of a nineteenth-century industrial cluster that played a significant role in the development of the Peterborough region. The dig this year aims to better understand the industry and the people that lived in this area at that time.