The Snary site is located west of London, Ontario. It was discovered by Mr. Stanley Wortner in the early 1960's and is known only through surface collection off of a ploughed field. The artifacts collection include 14 stone tools and a handful of small waste flakes from tool manufacture and resharpening.
 

The tools includes a longitudinally split Gainey Style fluted point, the basal corner or ear of which has been reworked into a graver or piercer. However, the most common artifact type by far is the trianguloid end scraper (8 of 14) suggesting the site represents a somewhat specialized occupation where hide-working activities predominated. The site assemblage is also notable in that it is almost totally on Fossil Hill formation "Collingwood" chert from 250 km away. That material was widely used by fluted point peoples in southwestern Ontario despite having to be carried in from long distances. In fact, the Snary site represents the farthest known site from the chert outcrops where that raw material predominates.

Published References

C. Garrad - 1971 - Ontario Fluted Point Survey. Ontario Archaeology 16:3-18.

S. Wortner and C. J. Ellis - 1993 - The Snary Early Paleo-Indian Site. Kewa 93(2):2-15.

Other References

S. Lancashire - 2001 - Early Paleoindian Trianguloid End Scrapers: An Analysis. M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London.