Dildo Island is the largest of three islands located at the entrance to Dildo Arm in the bottom of Trinity Bay. Initial survey work on Dildo Island in 1995 yielded evidence of a prehistoric occupation of the island by Dorset Eskimo, Recent Indian, and Beothuk people. Documentary evidence indicates that there was a Beothuk camp on the Island in the early 17th century and that an English fort was located there in the early 18th century. The Island was also the site of Newfoundland's first cod hatchery in the late 19th century. Between 1996 and 1999 excavations were conducted on a Dorset Eskimo house on the island dating to between AD 100 and AD 700 and in 2001 initial excavations were conducted on a Recent Indian site believed to date to circa AD 900.

Dorset Eskimo Artifacts

A.D. 100 - A.D. 700

Dorset Eskimo
Flensing Knife

A.D. 100 - A.D. 700

 

Dorset Eskimo Artifacts

A.D. 100 - A.D. 700

Anderson's Cove